Decomposition Planning⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000013488 CEMI (Central Economic-Mathematical Institute) under Fedorenko; Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition applied to planning; Soviet work on iterative planning procedures.
Input-Output Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000012944 Wassily Leontief (1930s, Nobel 1973); extensively used in Soviet planning under the name "balance of the national economy."
Inventory and Queueing⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000013880 Soviet operations research drawing on Western foundations (Erlang, Khinchin) with distinctive Soviet contributions; applied to planning materials supply and service systems.
Linear Programming⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000014168 Leonid Kantorovich developed linear programming (1939) for plywood production optimization; later extended to economy-wide planning. Nobel Prize in Economics (1975, shared with Koopmans).
Material Balance Planning⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000012184 Soviet planning practice from the 1930s; the Gosplan method of balancing supply and demand for key commodities.
Network Planning⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000012760 PERT/CPM developed in the US (1950s); adopted and extended in Soviet planning as "setevoe planirovanie" (network planning).