Nested Partitions Method, Theory and Applications

• Main Authors: Shi, Leyuan. (Author), <U+00d3>lafsson, Sigurdur. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 109
• Subjects: Economics.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Operations research.; Business logistics.; Economics/Management Science.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Mathematical Programming.; Optimization.; Production/Logistics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71909-2

There is increasing need to solve large-scale complex optimization problems in a wide variety of science and engineering applications, including designing telecommunication networks for multimedia transmission, planning and scheduling problems in manufacturing and military operations, or designing n...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Nested partitions for deterministic optimization
• Nested partitions for stochastic optimization
• Development of stopping rules
• Hybrid nested partitions algorithms
• Applications
• Product design
• Buffer allocation
• Flexible resource scheduling
• Data mining
• Supply chain network design
• References
• Index.