I shall start with a motivation, which is the control of semiconductor wafer fabs. A fluid approximation to the wafer fab, with finite horizon objective and on-line controls leads to a Separated Continuous Linear Program.
I shall then walk you through my simplex algorithm for the solution of SCLP.
I will then discuss the form of the solution and how it can be
used for nearly optimal control of the wafer fab. This will lead to a general discussion of SCLP applications.