The java.util.function package contains well over 40 different components, but if you can garner a good understanding of consumers, predicates, functions, unary types and suppliers, knowledge of the ...

Example 3.7: Goal-Programming a Product Mix Problem. This example shows how to use PROC LP to solve a linear goal-programming problem. PROC LP has the ability to solve a series of linear programs, ...

Example 8.10: Quadratic Programming. The quadratic program can be solved by solving an equivalent linear complementarity problem when H is positive semidefinite. The approach is outlined in the ...

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7).Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...