The importance of a subárea of Mathematical Programming known as Piecewise-Linear Programming - PLP is emphasized. In fact PLP has many both theoretical and real life applications. This paper presents the results of an extensive bibliographical research, including the most relevant Operations Research journals and books available, which had as goal to find out Piecewise-Linear Programming state-of-art, as well as its range of applicability. Particularly, inside PLP context, this paper details Network Piecewise-Linear Programming due to its relevance to several real life situations.
Piecewise-Linear Programming; Network Piecewise-Linear Programming