The reason why application of LP in a newish area is not really publishable is because the field of Operations Research has been doing that continuously for the

The reason why application of LP in a newish area is not really publishable is because the field of Operations Research has been doing that continuously for the past 80 years. Modeling planning problems as mathematical optimization problems has been done long before computers were capable of solving them, and convex optimization problems in particular have the most historical work put into them, due to early innovations. Optimizing selections of cloud resources in particular is so ubiquitous that those exact types of problems tend to be used as tutorials to get people up to speed for various types of solvers. Unfortunately we have a very bad branding problem, and almost nobody who hears the name "Operations Research" can infer what we actually do from the name, let alone understand the mountains of research that we've accumulated over time.