"QP retains all the power of LP but accommodates the Hessian matrix of second derivatives along with the LP Jacobian matrix of first derivative slopes for realistic representation of nonlinear curves and hills built from rigorous first principles Chemical Engineering simulation models of mass, energy, momentum and kinetics to solve the data and dynamic inventory shortcomings."
 

I ran across that in one of my work technical articles.  I must be a geek :-)
 

QP stands for Quadratic Programming
LP stands for Linear Programming