Download or read book Branch and Bound Methods for Combinatorial Problems Classic Reprint written by John D. C. Little and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Branch and Bound Methods for Combinatorial Problems Certain types of combinatorial problems is discussed. The approach is illustrated on the traveling salesman problem. A 6 city problem is worked out in detail. Then a flow diagram is given for a general discrete variable minimization problem. Finally, applications in job sequencing, flow-shop scheduling, and traffic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Branch and Bound Methods for Combinatorial Problems written by John D. C. Little and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Integer and Combinatorial Optimization written by Laurence A. Wolsey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rave reviews for INTEGER AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION "This book provides an excellent introduction and survey of traditional fields of combinatorial optimization . . . It is indeed one of the best and most complete texts on combinatorial optimization . . . available. [And] with more than 700 entries, [it] has quite an exhaustive reference list."-Optima "A unifying approach to optimization problems is to formulate them like linear programming problems, while restricting some or all of the variables to the integers. This book is an encyclopedic resource for such formulations, as well as for understanding the structure of and solving the resulting integer programming problems."-Computing Reviews "[This book] can serve as a basis for various graduate courses on discrete optimization as well as a reference book for researchers and practitioners."-Mathematical Reviews "This comprehensive and wide-ranging book will undoubtedly become a standard reference book for all those in the field of combinatorial optimization."-Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society "This text should be required reading for anybody who intends to do research in this area or even just to keep abreast of developments."-Times Higher Education Supplement, London Also of interest . . . INTEGER PROGRAMMING Laurence A. Wolsey Comprehensive and self-contained, this intermediate-level guide to integer programming provides readers with clear, up-to-date explanations on why some problems are difficult to solve, how techniques can be reformulated to give better results, and how mixed integer programming systems can be used more effectively. 1998 (0-471-28366-5) 260 pp.
Download or read book Solution of Three Related Combinatorial Problems by Network flow and branch and Bound Methods written by Christopher Reed Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solution of Three Related Combinatorial Problems by Network Flow and Branch and Bound Methods written by Christopher R Sprague and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Branch and Bound Applications in Combinatorial Data Analysis written by Michael J. Brusco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a variety of combinatorial optimization problems that are relevant to the examination of statistical data. Combinatorial problems arise in the clustering of a collection of objects, the seriation (sequencing or ordering) of objects, and the selection of variables for subsequent multivariate statistical analysis such as regression. The options for choosing a solution strategy in combinatorial data analysis can be overwhelming. Because some problems are too large or intractable for an optimal solution strategy, many researchers develop an over-reliance on heuristic methods to solve all combinatorial problems. However, with increasingly accessible computer power and ever-improving methodologies, optimal solution strategies have gained popularity for their ability to reduce unnecessary uncertainty. In this monograph, optimality is attained for nontrivially sized problems via the branch-and-bound paradigm. For many combinatorial problems, branch-and-bound approaches have been proposed and/or developed. However, until now, there has not been a single resource in statistical data analysis to summarize and illustrate available methods for applying the branch-and-bound process. This monograph provides clear explanatory text, illustrative mathematics and algorithms, demonstrations of the iterative process, psuedocode, and well-developed examples for applications of the branch-and-bound paradigm to important problems in combinatorial data analysis. Supplementary material, such as computer programs, are provided on the world wide web. Dr. Brusco is a Professor of Marketing and Operations Research at Florida State University, an editorial board member for the Journal of Classification, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Classification Society of North America. Stephanie Stahl is an author and researcher with years of experience in writing, editing, and quantitative psychology research.
Download or read book The branch and bound approach to combinatorial optimization problems written by Ulrich Derigs and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Ant Colony Optimization written by Christian Blum and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combinatorial optimization problems are of high academical and practical importance. Unfortunately, many of them belong to the class of NP-hard problems and are therefore intractable. In other words, as their dimension increases, the time needed by exact methods to find an optimal solution grows exponentially. Metaheuristics are approximate methods for attacking these problems. An approximate method is a technique that is applied in order to find a good enough solution in a reasonable amount of time. Examples of metaheuristics are simulated annealing, tabu search, evolutionary computation, and ant colony optimization (ACO), the subject of this book. The contributions of this book to ACO research are twofold. First, some new theoretical results are proven that improve our understanding of how ACO works. Second, a new framework for ACO algorithms is proposed that is shown to perform at the state-of-the-art level on some important combinatorial optimization problems such as the k-cardinality tree problem and the group shop scheduling problem, which is a general shop scheduling problem that includes among others the well-known job shop scheduling and the open shop scheduling problems.
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence written by R. B. Mishra and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written keeping in view the requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students and research scholars in the area of computer science and engineering in particular, and other branches of engineering which deal with the study of AI such as electronics engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering (robotics and FMS). Besides the engineering students, the postgraduate students of computer science and computer applications and cognitive sciences researchers can equally benefit from this text. The basic concepts of artificial intelligence, together with knowledge representation, reasoning methods, acquisition, management and distributed architecture, have been nicely and instructively described. The various application domains and disciplines in engineering, management, medicine which cover different aspects of design, assembly and monitoring, have been presented with utility aspects of AI concepts in logic and knowledge. The book maintains a simple and comprehensible style of presentation for the different categories of readers such as students, researchers and professionals for their respective uses.
Download or read book Search Methodologies written by Edmund K. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tutorial survey of the methodologies that are at the confluence of several fields: Computer Science, Mathematics and Operations Research. It provides a carefully structured and integrated treatment of the major technologies in optimization and search methodology. The chapter authors are drawn from across Computer Science and Operations Research and include some of the world’s leading authorities in their field. It can be used as a textbook or a reference book to learn and apply these methodologies to a wide range of today’s problems.
Download or read book Applications of Combinatorial Optimization Volume 3 written by Vangelis Th. Paschos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combinatorial optimization is a multidisciplinary scientific area, lying in the interface of three major scientific domains: mathematics, theoretical computer science and management. The three volumes of the Combinatorial Optimization series aims to cover a wide range of topics in this area. These topics also deal with fundamental notions and approaches as with several classical applications of combinatorial optimization. “Applications of Combinatorial Optimization” is presenting a certain number among the most common and well-known applications of Combinatorial Optimization.
Download or read book Handbook of combinatorial optimization written by Dingzhu Du and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a multi-volume set. The various volumes deal with several algorithmic approaches for discrete problems as well as with many combinatorial problems. The emphasis is on late-1990s developments. Each chapter is essentially expository in nature, but scholarly in its treatment.
Download or read book Computing and Combinatorics written by Lusheng Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed proceedings of the 11th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2005, held in Kunming, China in August 2005. The 96 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 353 submissions. The papers cover most aspects of theoretical computer science and combinatorics related to computing and are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, networks, string algorithms, scheduling, complexity, steiner trees, graph drawing and layout design, quantum computing, randomized algorithms, geometry, codes, finance, facility location, graph theory, graph algorithms.
Download or read book Data Structures and Efficient Algorithms written by Burkhard Monien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-05-20 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myocarditis and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy are being increasingly recognized as important causes of heart disease and heart failure. Immunological mechanisms have long been suspected as playing a role in thesediseases but direct evidence has been lacking. Recently, animal models have be- come available, in which myocarditis can be induced either by infection with cardiotropic viruses or by autoimmuniza- tion with heart-specific antigens. This book presents and analyzes the latest information obtained from experimental models, relating it to the practical problems of diagnosis and treatment of myocarditis.
Download or read book Deterministic Global Optimization written by Daniel Scholz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph deals with a general class of solution approaches in deterministic global optimization, namely the geometric branch-and-bound methods which are popular algorithms, for instance, in Lipschitzian optimization, d.c. programming, and interval analysis.It also introduces a new concept for the rate of convergence and analyzes several bounding operations reported in the literature, from the theoretical as well as from the empirical point of view. Furthermore, extensions of the prototype algorithm for multicriteria global optimization problems as well as mixed combinatorial optimization problems are considered. Numerical examples based on facility location problems support the theory. Applications of geometric branch-and-bound methods, namely the circle detection problem in image processing, the integrated scheduling and location makespan problem, and the median line location problem in the three-dimensional space are also presented. The book is intended for both researchers and students in the areas of mathematics, operations research, engineering, and computer science.
