Heuristic Search for Network Design -- Polyhedral Combinatorics -- Constraint Languages for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Tutorial on Radiation Oncology and Optimization -- Parallel Algorithm Design for Branch and Bound -- Computer-Aided Design for Electrical and Computer engineering -- Nonlinear Programming and Engineering Applications -- Connecting MRP, MRP II and ERP — Supply Chain Produ…
Modelling Techniques -- An Initiative for International Consensus on Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Integration -- Towards Knowledge Logistics in Agile SME Networks -- A Modelling Framework for Human Resource-Based Business Processes -- Managing Service-Sensitive Demand Through Simulation -- Robust Modeling of Consumer Behaviour -- Sizing, Cycle Time and Plant Control Using Dioid Al…
Basics -- Introduction -- Linear Programming Prerequisites -- Nonlinear Programming Prerequisites -- Single-stage SLP Models -- Introduction -- Models involving Probability Functions -- Quantile Functions, Value at Risk -- Models Based on Expectation -- Models Built with Deviation Measures -- Modeling Risk and Opportunity -- Risk Measures -- Multi-stage SLP Models -- The General SLP with Recour…
Two Classical Optimization Problems -- Gauss’ Question -- What Does Solution Mean? -- Network Design Problems -- A New Challenge: The Phylogeny -- An Analysis of Steiner’s Problem in Phylogenetic Spaces -- Tree Building Algorithms.The problem of "Shortest Connectivity" has a long and convoluted history: given a finite set of points in a metric space, search for a network that connects these…
Classical Techniques -- Integer Programming -- Genetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Tabu Search -- Simulated Annealing -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Constraint Programming -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Complexity Theory and the No Free Lunch Theorem -- Machine Learning -- Artificial Immune Systems -- Swarm Intelligence -- Fuzzy Reasoning -- Rough Set Based Decision Support -- …
Modeling Text Databases -- An Overview of Probabilistic and Time Series Models in Finance -- Stereological Estimation of the Rose of Directions from the Rose of Intersections -- Approximations for Multiple Scan Statistics -- Krawtchouk Polynomials and Krawtchouk Matrices -- An Elementary Rigorous Introduction to Exact Sampling -- On the Different Extensions of the Ergodic Theorem of Information…
Quadratic Programming Problems -- Existence Theorems for Quadratic Programs -- Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for Quadratic Programs -- Properties of the Solution Sets of Quadratic Programs -- Affine Variational Inequalities -- Solution Existence for Affine Variational Inequalities -- Upper-Lipschitz Continuity of the Solution Map in Affine Variational Inequalities -- Linear Fra…
Line Search Descent Methods for Unconstrained Minimization -- Standard Methods for Constrained Optimization -- New Gradient-Based Trajectory and Approximation Methods -- Example Problems -- Some Theorems.This book presents basic optimization principles and gradient-based algorithms to a general audience, in a brief and easy-to-read form without neglecting rigour. The work should enable the prof…
Preliminaries -- Manufacturing Models -- Service Models -- Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing -- Project Planning and Scheduling -- Machine Scheduling and Job Shop Scheduling -- Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems -- Economic Lot Scheduling -- Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chains -- Planning and Scheduling in Services -- Interval Scheduling, Reservations, and Timetabling -- Schedu…
Portfolio Optimization -- One-Variable Optimization -- Optimal Portfolios with N Assets -- Unconstrained Optimization in N Variables -- The Steepest Descent Method -- The Newton Method -- Quasi-Newton Methods -- Conjugate Gradient Methods -- Optimal Portfolios with Restrictions -- Larger-Scale Portfolios -- Data-Fitting & The Gauss-Newton Method -- Equality Constrained Optimization -- Linear Eq…