PERUSE: An Interactive System for Mathematical Programs

This paper describes the design, implementation, testing, and use of PERUSE, an interactive software system for obtaining information from mathematmal programs. This system has been found useful for debugging apphcations of mathematical programming, quickly obtaining small amounts of pertinent information, and auditing model content or structure The command syntax is described and examples are gwen. The matrix-solution data structure that compactly stores the matrix and solution information is presented Future enhancements are discussed.