SOL Classics Department of MS&E Stanford University

A few early papers are collected here (not easily available elsewhere).

• G. B. Dantzig (1973). On the need for a Systems Optimization Laboratory, pp. 1-32 in Mathematical Programming, T. C. Hu and S. M. Robinson (Eds.), Academic Press, New York and London.

  This is the reference for the original single-author paper.

• G. B. Dantzig, R. W. Cottle, B. C. Eaves, F. S. Hillier, A. S. Manne, G. H. Golub, D. J. Wilde, and R. B. Wilson (1974). On the need for a Systems Optimization Laboratory, pp. 3-22 in Optimization Methods for Resource Allocation (Proc. NATO Conf., Elsinore, 1971), R. W. Cottle and J. Krarup (Eds.), English Universities Press, London.

  This is a multi-author version of the same paper.

• M. A. Saunders (1972). Large-scale linear programming using the Cholesky factorization, Report STAN-CS-72-252, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.