1. The University of Western Australia, School of Agriculture, Nedlands W.A. 6009 Australia
2. MPS is an abbreviation of the Mathematical Programming System format commonly used by the Operations Research community to share mathematical programming problems. It is a text format, so one of the reasons for using it is the ability to port LP or IP problems from one computer to another.
3. Lotus 1-2-3 is a registered trademark of Lotus Corporation
4. Quattro Pro is a registered trademark of Borland Int.
5. Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Ltd.