The teachers' forum: Teaching nonlinear programming using cooperative active learning

Interfaces

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 119-132

  Lasdon, Leon ^a   Liebman, Judith S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0038898656     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.28.4.119     Document Type: Article

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