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Courseware: This is the name of the software that comes with the textbook. It includes
limited versions of optimization solvers such as LINGO, MPL and Excel solvers.
OR Tutor can be used to demonstrate OR techniques (demo) and thus it is a good learning
tool
Interactive Routines are used by students to solve homework problems interactively with
the computer: The student makes the decision as to what the next step is and enters the
appropriate numbers to execute the algorithm while the computer does only the number
crunching (saving students arithmetic mistakes). All the iterations are transparent, i.e.
intermediate calculations, tables, etc., as opposed to optimization solvers which provide only the
final solution. Unfortunately only small problems, small enough to fit all intermediate
calculations on a single computer screen, can be solved by interactive routines. Interactive
Routines can be downloaded directly from this blackboard section above or from the textbook's
website http://www.mhhe.com/hillier/ by clicking on IOR Tutorial.
Optimization Software: We are going to use LINGO. Please download the free trial
student (most recent) version of LINGO from the website of LINDO Systems Inc.,
http://www.lindo.com/. The limited version is able to handle the size of problems we are
going to solve in this class. You can also use the unlimited version of LINGO that resides
on the University Network, NUnet. On Campus, you can access the NUnet LINGO
version from Nunet computers: from the Start menu select path: Department
Applications-Engineering-LINGO-Lingo 11 (Different labs may use different paths).
Remotely, you can access it in your myneu portal using myApps.