Visual LinProg: A web-based educational software for linear programming

Computer Applications in Engineering Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Lazaridis, Vassilios ^a   Paparrizos, Konstantinos ^a   Samaras, Nikolaos ^a   Sifaleras, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computers and education; Educational software implementation; Java; Linear programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; TEXTUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL LINPROG;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34249014443     PISSN: 10613773     EISSN: 10990542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cae.20084     Document Type: Article

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