Extending the Horizons: Advances in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies

Extending the Horizons: Advances in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies
Title Extending the Horizons: Advances in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies PDF eBook
Author Edward K. Baker
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 266
Release 2007-04-30
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 038748793X

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This book represents the results of cross-fertilization between OR/MS and CS/AI. It is this interface of OR/CS that makes possible advances that could not have been achieved in isolation. Taken collectively, these articles are indicative of the state-of-the-art in the interface between OR/MS and CS/AI and of the high caliber of research being conducted by members of the INFORMS Computing Society.

Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology

Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology
Title Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology PDF eBook
Author S. Raghavan
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 386
Release 2008-02-06
Genre Computers
ISBN 0387777806

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This book examines the newer and emerging models of telecommunications technology that play instrumental roles in providing international economic and societal interconnectivity. Advancing technology in the field imposes the need to develop new models to solve complex planning and decision making problems. The book explores natural output of the new technical developments and applications with selective chapter treatment on novel business models to fill technical and business needs.

Operations Research, Computing, and Homeland Defense

Operations Research, Computing, and Homeland Defense
Title Operations Research, Computing, and Homeland Defense PDF eBook
Author R. Kevin Wood
Publisher INFORMS
Pages 217
Release 2011
Genre Education
ISBN 0984337814

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This book is published in conjunction with the 12th Computing Society Conference, held January 9, 2011, in Monterey, California. The themes of the conference and this book are operations research, computing, and homeland defense. The papers cover topics on the theory of computing, mathematical programming, game theory, statistics and more; over half have applications to homeland defense.

Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Discrete Event Systems

Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Discrete Event Systems
Title Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Discrete Event Systems PDF eBook
Author Chun-Hung Chen
Publisher World Scientific
Pages 274
Release 2013
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 9814513016

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Discrete event systems (DES) have become pervasive in our daily lives. Examples include (but are not restricted to) manufacturing and supply chains, transportation, healthcare, call centers, and financial engineering. However, due to their complexities that often involve millions or even billions of events with many variables and constraints, modeling these stochastic simulations has long been a hard nut to crack. The advance in available computer technology, especially of cluster and cloud computing, has paved the way for the realization of a number of stochastic simulation optimization for complex discrete event systems. This book will introduce two important techniques initially proposed and developed by Professor Y C Ho and his team; namely perturbation analysis and ordinal optimization for stochastic simulation optimization, and present the state-of-the-art technology, and their future research directions.

Differential Evolution: A Handbook for Global Permutation-Based Combinatorial Optimization

Differential Evolution: A Handbook for Global Permutation-Based Combinatorial Optimization
Title Differential Evolution: A Handbook for Global Permutation-Based Combinatorial Optimization PDF eBook
Author Godfrey C. Onwubolu
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 226
Release 2009-01-13
Genre Computers
ISBN 3540921508

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This is the first book devoted entirely to Differential Evolution (DE) for global permutative-based combinatorial optimization. Since its original development, DE has mainly been applied to solving problems characterized by continuous parameters. This means that only a subset of real-world problems could be solved by the original, classical DE algorithm. This book presents in detail the various permutative-based combinatorial DE formulations by their initiators in an easy-to-follow manner, through extensive illustrations and computer code. It is a valuable resource for professionals and students interested in DE in order to have full potentials of DE at their disposal as a proven optimizer. All source programs in C and Mathematica programming languages are downloadable from the website of Springer.

Metaheuristics

Metaheuristics
Title Metaheuristics PDF eBook
Author El-Ghazali Talbi
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 625
Release 2009-05-27
Genre Computers
ISBN 0470496908

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A unified view of metaheuristics This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient algorithms to solve complex optimization problems across a diverse range of applications, from networking and bioinformatics to engineering design, routing, and scheduling. It presents the main design questions for all families of metaheuristics and clearly illustrates how to implement the algorithms under a software framework to reuse both the design and code. Throughout the book, the key search components of metaheuristics are considered as a toolbox for: Designing efficient metaheuristics (e.g. local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimization, scatter search, ant colonies, bee colonies, artificial immune systems) for optimization problems Designing efficient metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization problems Designing hybrid, parallel, and distributed metaheuristics Implementing metaheuristics on sequential and parallel machines Using many case studies and treating design and implementation independently, this book gives readers the skills necessary to solve large-scale optimization problems quickly and efficiently. It is a valuable reference for practicing engineers and researchers from diverse areas dealing with optimization or machine learning; and graduate students in computer science, operations research, control, engineering, business and management, and applied mathematics.

Hybrid Metaheuristics

Hybrid Metaheuristics
Title Hybrid Metaheuristics PDF eBook
Author Christian Blum
Publisher Springer
Pages 213
Release 2008-10-05
Genre Computers
ISBN 3540884394

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, HM 2008, held in Malaga, Spain, in October 2008. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers discuss specific aspects of combinations of metaheuristics and other solving techniques for tackling particular relevant constrained optimization problems, such as fiber optic networks, time tabling and freight train scheduling problems.