User friendly front end for a MPS PC program

Author

Perng, Jong-I ; Unger, Elizabeth

Author_Institution

Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA

fYear

1990

Firstpage

312

Lastpage

316

Abstract

A mathematical computer programming system, MPS, implements the simplex algorithm developed for solving the linear programming (LP) problem. With the fast growing personal computer (PC) technology and the advent of software packages for the MPS PC, a class of learn-by-doing MPS users has emerged. Motivated by the fact that entering most LP data into a computer is a time consuming, confusing, and error prone task for the end users, the authors study the MPS PC user´s requirements for LP data entry and describe the design of the user-friendly-front-end program to aid in this process. The program is implemented currently in LOTUS 1-2-3 macros; covenants on that prototype are provided

Keywords

linear programming; mathematics computing; microcomputer applications; spreadsheet programs; user interfaces; LOTUS 1-2-3 macros; data entry; learn-by-doing; linear programming; mathematical computer programming system; simplex algorithm; user-friendly-front-end program; Application software; Computer errors; Computer science; Iterative algorithms; Linear programming; Mathematical programming; Microcomputers; Prototypes; Software algorithms; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computing, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fayetteville, AR

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2031-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOAC.1990.82188

Filename

82188