[Coin-discuss] PROJECT PROPOSAL: graphical user interface for some COIN packages

[Raphael Langerhorst]

Hello!

I am an IT student and we work on various projects on an per-semester 
basis. In the last semester we learned something about OR. I am 
basically interested in doing a project based on COIN for the next 
semester.

I would like to know if there is general interest in an easy to use 
GUI to test/show various algorithms. As far as I have seen there is 
no ready-to-use GUI provided by the COIN project (please prove me 
wrong, I have not searched for too long). I would like to do a 
project that provides a nice GUI for various COIN packages to show 
the capabilities of some OR algorithms. I am very familiar with Qt 
programming and would implement such an interface with Qt, maybe also 
KDE if there is interest.

The target audience is, again, universities or wherever Operation 
Research is taught. The simple/direct GUI to the algorithms would be 
helpful to show the students and make clear to them how the 
algorithms work. I would of course put this project under an open 
source license and would make it publicly available for further 
improvements to make it as useful as possible for everyone.

Please let me know what you think as soon as possible as we have to 
decide about our next-semester projects within a few days.

Thank you very much,
-- 
Raphael Langerhorst
http://raphael.g-system.at/blog