User friendly micro computer program for solving fractional and linear programming problems

Abstract Fractional Linear Programming (FLP) has many applications in management science as well as in engineering. We have developed a microcomputer program to solve linear and FLP problems. It is written in TURBO PASCAL which can be used on a wide variety of microcomputers. Because data entry constitutes a large proportion of the total computer solution time, careful attention has been placed on the human factors of human-computer interaction in that stage of program development. A test example is presented to demonstrate the usefulness of this program.