SCOOP stands for the Scientific Computation of Optimal Programs. Project SCOOP was a research program of the U.S. Air Force whose main objective was to study and solve Air Force programming and scheduling problems. It was while working on Project SCOOP problems that George B. Dantzig formulated the linear-programming model and developed the simplex method for solving such problems. Project SCOOP functioned from the late 1940s to early 1950s.
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Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (2001). Project scoop . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_818
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