<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This announcement concerns two freely-available supplements to a </span></div><div>previously-published <span style="font-size: 12pt;">monograph, Nazareth, J.L. (2001), DLP and </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Extensions: An Optimization Model and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Decision Support System </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg, xvii+207 pgs.), which </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">is </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">currently distributed in whole, or individually by chapter, on </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Springer Link, and is also </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">available </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">from other outlets. These two </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">freely-available supplements are as follows:</span></div><div><br></div><div>1. A complete listing of the source code for the prototype </div><div>implementation <span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the optimization </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">techniques developed in the </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">above monograph has now been published in the form of an </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E-Book </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">as follows: Nazareth, J.L. (2017), DLPEDU: A Fortran-77 </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open-Source Prototype </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Implementation of the DLP Optimization </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">System (vii+207 pgs.), which is freely available at</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/nazareth/dlpedu-ebook.pdf</span></div><div><br></div><div>2. A companion to the foregoing E-Book titled "A DLP Primer" </div><div>(2017, 18 pgs.) is freely <span style="font-size: 12pt;">available</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> at </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/nazareth/Vineyard-DLP-Primer.pdf</span></div><div>and it has two main aims: firstly, to provide an elementary introduction </div><div>to the DLP decision-<span style="font-size: 12pt;">support system by means of a simple illustrative </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">application to viticulture; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and secondly, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to facilitate and promote use </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of DLPEDU, the prototype implementation listed </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">foregoing </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E-Book, as a platform for further research, application, and product </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">development </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">by interested researchers and entrepreneurs.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Feedback on these two supplements to the monograph, sent by e-mail</div><div>to either <span style="font-size: 12pt;">nazareth@amath.washington.edu or larry_nazareth@q.com</span></div><div>would be welcome.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>