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…
Information Centric Optimization of Inventories in Capacitated Supply Chains: Three Illustrative Examples -- An Analysis of Advance Booking Discount Programs Between Competing Retailers -- Third Party Logistics Planning with Routing and Inventory Costs -- Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing -- Multi-Channel Supply Chain Design in B2C Electronic Commerce -- …
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…
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 -- …
The statistics of asset allocation -- Univariate statistics -- Multivariate statistics -- Modeling the market -- Classical asset allocation -- Estimating the distribution of the market invariants -- Evaluating allocations -- Optimizing allocations -- Accounting for estimation risk -- Estimating the distribution of the market invariants -- Evaluating allocations -- Optimizing allocations.This en…
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…
Advances for New Model and Solution Approaches -- A Scatter Search Tutorial for Graph-Based Permutation Problems -- A Multistart Scatter Search Heuristic for Smooth NLP and MINLP Problems -- Scatter Search Methods for the Covering Tour Problem -- Solution of the SONET Ring Assignment Problem with Capacity Constraints -- Advances for Solving Classical Problems -- A Very Fast Tabu Search Algorith…
Stochastic Fluid Models For the On-line Control of Communication Networks -- Stability Analysis of Window Flow Control -- H-infinity and LMMSE Based Capacity Predictors for Flow -- Control in Communication Networks -- Models and Methods for Analyzing Congestion Control and Active Management Schemes -- Delay Effects on the Stability of Various Fluid Models Encountered in High-speed Networks -- D…
Optimization Problems Related to Internet Congestion Control -- Problems in Data Structures and Algorithms -- Algorithmic Graph Theory and Its Applications -- Decompositions and Forcing Relations in Graphs and Other Combinatorial Structures -- The Local Ratio Technique and Its Application to Scheduling and Resource Allocation Problems -- Domination Analysis of Combinatorial Optimization Algorit…
Stability of dynamical systems, bifurcations, and generic properties -- Discrete invariants of dynamical systems -- Entropy and topological aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and metric aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and measure theoretic aspects of dynamical systems -- Smooth dynamical systems -- Cellular automata and Boolean networks as examples of discrete dynamical systems.Our…