Overview

This text reflects the need for preserving the marriage between operations research and computing in order to create more efficient and powerful software tools in the years ahead. The 17 papers included in this volume were carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics related to the interface between operations research and computer science. The volume includes the now perennial applications of metaheuristics (such as genetic algorithms, scatter search and tabu search) as well as research on global optimization, knowledge management, software maintainability and object-oriented modelling. These topics reflect the complexity and variety of the problems that current and future software tools must be capable of tackling. The OR/CS interface is frequently at the core of successful applications and the development of new methodologies, making the research in this book a relevant reference, in the future. The editors' goal for this book has been to increase the interest in the interface of computer science and operations research. Both researchers and practitioners should find this book useful. The tutorial papers may spark the interest of practitioners for developing and applying new techniques to complex problems. In addition, the book includes papers that explore new angles of well-established methods for problems in the area pf nonlinear optimization and mixed integer programming, which researchers in these fields may find interesting.

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Author:   Manuel Laguna ,  José Luis González-Velarde
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.420kg
ISBN:  

9780792377184

ISBN 10:   0792377184
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   30 November 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Multi-Start and Strategic Oscillation Methods — Principles to Exploit Adative Memory.- 2 Building a High-quality Decision Tree with a Genetic Algorithm.- 3 Sequential Testing of Series-Parallel Systems of Small Depth.- 4 Conveying Problem Structure from an Algebraic Modeling Language to Optimization Algorithms.- 5 Solving General Ring Network Design Problems by Meta-Heuristics.- 6 Lagrangean/Surrogate Heuristics for p-Median Problems.- 7 An Introduction to Ant Systems.- 8 Extremal Energy Models and Global Optimization.- 9 A Simulation-Based Policy Iteration Algorithm for Average Cost Unichain Markov Decision Processes.- 10 Knowledge Management and its Impact on Decision Support.- 11 Heuristics for Minimum Cost Steady-State Gas Transmission Networks.- 12 Assigning Proctors to Exams with Scatter Search.- 13 Multi-Attribute Evaluation of Software Maintainability.- 14 Explicit-Constraint Branching for Solving Mixed-Integer Programs.- 15 An Object-Oriented Graphical Modeler for Optimal Production Planning in a Refinery.- 16 Optimization of Water Distribution Systems by a Tabu Search Metaheuristic.- 17 Scatter Search to Generate Diverse MIP Solutions.

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