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

[Leo Lopes]

Interesting comment. How about something totally new (AFAIK):  a 3d 
table manager. For example: say that you want to handle the shipments of 
serveral product types between suppliers and retailers. Instead of 
putting the information in a collection of tables, as is done now, you 
could create a GUI that handles the information in 3D, and allows easy 
access to aggregations accross any combination of dimensions.



Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joseph Young wrote:
> 
> 
>>	A big issue will be finding or developing a good modelling
>>language.  Most of the nice OR packages support modelling languages such
>>as AIMMS, GAMS, AMPL, or Xpress-Mosel.  Unless these languages are
>>released under a CPL compatible license, there may be issues integrating
>>it with COIN for general public release.  The GNU MathProg language should
>>be open, so I'd suggest looking at that.
> 
> 
> A reason that I almost always use an API without a modelling
> language is that if I don't assign index numbers myself,
> I don't know how to interpret them while my program is running.
> 

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