Selecting Journals of University Library to Stop Subscription by OR/MS Approach
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We present an OR/MS approach we adopted to stop some of the academic journals subscribed by Nanzan University Library. The problem is formulated as the knapsack problem and solved by the EXCEL Solver. We also show how we implement our solution in our university.
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