Stochastic Storage Processes: Queues, Insurance Risk and Dams

The author, from the mathematics department of the University of Dar es Salaam has encouraged his LP students to 'form small teams and explore areas where the material taught can be useful in their home villages or regions'. Several of these exercises are presented to illustrate the use of LP in situations which are typical of developing coun? tries: the choice of markets in which to sell agricultural products, crop choice for a village, reservoir design, should a tractor be hired by a village, should herbicides be used, reorganisation of a communal farming enterprise and diet planning. These cases are presented as mathematical modelling exercises: there is no discussion of actual imple? mentation.