By
E. Boros, Rutgers University, Center for Operations Research, Piscataway, NJ, USA
P.L. Hammer, Rutgers University, Center for Operations Research, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Description
One of the most frequently occurring types of optimization problems involves decision variables which have to take integer values. From
a practical point of view, such problems occur in countless areas of management, engineering, administration, etc., and include such
problems as location of plants or warehouses, scheduling of aircraft, cutting raw materials to prescribed dimensions, design of computer
chips, increasing reliability or capacity of networks, etc. This is the class of problems known in the professional literature as "discrete
optimization" problems. While these problems are of enormous applicability, they present many challenges from a computational point
of view. This volume is an update on the impressive progress achieved by mathematicians, operations researchers, and computer scientists
in solving discrete optimization problems of very large sizes. The surveys in this volume present a comprehensive overview of the state
of the art in discrete optimization and are written by the most prominent researchers from all over the world.
This volume describes
the tremendous progress in discrete optimization achieved in the last 20 years since the publication of Discrete Optimization '77, Annals
of Discrete Mathematics, volumes 4 and 5, 1979 (Elsevier). It contains surveys of the state of the art written by the most prominent
researchers in the field from all over the world, and covers topics like neighborhood search techniques, lift and project for mixed 0-1
programming, pseudo-Boolean optimization, scheduling and assignment problems, production planning, location, bin packing, cutting planes,
vehicle routing, and applications to graph theory, mechanics, chip design, etc.
Key features:
• state of the art surveys•
comprehensiveness• prominent authors• theoretical, computational and applied aspects.
This book is a reprint
of Discrete Applied Mathematics Volume 23, Numbers 1-3
Included in series
Topics in Discrete Mathematics
Audience:
Researchers working in Operations Research, Mathematics, Computer Science Departments, Electrical, Economics, Industrial, Mechanical and Civil Engineering Departments.
