ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the potential of programming with a highly simplified example employing the linear form of programming. It examines how nonlinear programming can be effectively employed for regional development, particularly within an interregional system. The chapter discusses basic aspects of nonlinear programming indicating its potential for a broad range of problems. It presents an application, how in effect this programming underlies industrial complex analyses. The chapter suggests how nonlinear programming has potential for urban complex analyses, although it has scarcely been applied to the examination of the various spatial factors and relationships which need to be covered. It also presents some of the basic aspects of nonlinear programming, but more important to illustrate its potential for handling complex problems. Nonlinearity was involved primarily in the scale economies in the use of the two resources, labor and capital, in each of the activities.
