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

[John Fuller]

I think any visualization tools would help us as OR practictioners market
our discipline as well...


Raphael Langerhorst wrote:

>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,
>  
>