An abstract describing our recently written linear programming system based on the original standard method."retroLP, an Implementation of the Standard Simplex Method," (.pdf 89KB) with G. Yarmish, 7/30/2001.This method is available to students and researchers, and is particularly effective for dense problems. It can also be easily modified to make a scalable distributed version. See Yarmish' dissertation (.pdf 665KB) for more details.

An online chapter, Network Planning and Design (.pdf 164KB), to supplement William Stallings, Business Data Communications, 4th ed., 2001

R. Van Slyke, 8/10/2001