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The Venue
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Givat Ram Campus
Maximal Software will be present at the EURO meeting, as an exhibitor throughout the conference at the software exhibit. We will also make the following presentation:
Title:Recent advances in Graphical User Interfaces and their Impact on Modeling in Mathematical Programming
Over the last few years Graphical User Interfaces (GUI’s) like Microsoft Windows and X/Motif have become dominant players in the personal computer and the workstation market. The open systems nature and multitasking capabilities of these systems allows us now to directly link modeling systems to solvers and databases. In this presentation we will demonstrate a new version of MPL for Windows that implements a complete model development environment within the Graphical User Interface.
Several solvers have recently become available for Windows including, among others, the new CPLEX Windows DLL. We will demonstrate how the tight integration of MPL and CPLEX allows us transparently access CPLEX solution algorithms directly from MPL’s pull-down menus and set options in user-friendly dialog boxes.
We will also demonstrate how MPL for Windows can link directly with relational databases such as Paradox, FoxPro and Dbase. Relational databases have, through popular implementation of SQL and Query-by-Example become an industry standard for database systems. Special emphases will be given to how databases can be used to handle data management tasks for algebraic modeling systems and what effect this can have on maintaining large industrial models.
Finally, we will discuss the current state-of-the-art of windowing systems in mathematical programming and what impact these new developments are likely to have on modeling in the near future.
Speaker: Bjarni Kristjansson, Maximal Software, Inc.