TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . . . . . LIST OF TABLES. . . . . LIST OF FIGURES . .. . . INTRODUCTION . . . . DESCRIPTION OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR MODELS.. General Non-Linear Programming . . Linear Programming . . . Quadratic Programming. . . . Linear Complementarity Programming . CONTROL PROGRAM AND DATA PREPARATION. . Basic Structure of the Card Deck .. Input Format . . . . Control cards . . . Row data cards. . . . Matrix data cards.. . . RHS data cards. . . . Problem Dimension. . . . SAMPLE PROBLEM NUMBER ONE . . . A Single Commodity, Three Region Model . Model description .. . . Input data . . . OUTPUT . . . . . Short Output . . . . Row Output . . . . Primal-Dual Variable Solution Output . SAMPLE PROBLEM NLUBER TWO . . . A Two Commodity, Three-Region Model. . DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM CONTROL CARDS Type 0 Control Cards . . . BEGIN . . . . Page i rr