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Author:   Manuel Laguna ,  José Luis González-Velarde
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.504kg
ISBN:  

9781461370628

ISBN 10:   1461370620
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   12 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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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