Petitioner: Employer. The Case. On May 01, 1989, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision stating that the case of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (docket no. 87-1167) should be reversed and remanded and upholding the law in question [Civil Rights Act Of 1964 (Title VII)] as constitutional. The judgment rested on the Court's authority over statutory construction.
Integer Programming (IP) is a very powerful technique for tackling problems which have a mixture of continuous and discrete activities, notably those involving scheduling. Unlike Linear Programming (LP), IP cannot simply be treated as a black box.
Integer-programming models arise in practically every area of application of mathematical programming. To. develop a preliminary appreciation for the importance of these models, we introduce, in this section, three. areas where integer programming has played an important role in supporting managerial decisions.