Operations Research and Cyber-Infrastructure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chinneck, John W. (Editor), Kristjansson, Bjarni. (Editor), Saltzman, Matthew J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces, 47
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Operations research.; Business planning.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Organization/Planning.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Business Information Systems.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88843-9

Operations Research and Cyber-Infrastructure is the companion volume to the Eleventh INFORMS Computing Society Conference (ICS 2009), held in Charleston, South Carolina, from January 11 to 13, 2009. It includes 24 high-quality refereed research papers. As always, the focus of interest for ICS is the...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Python optimization modeling objects
• Object oriented modeling of multistage stochastic linear programs
• AEON: synthesizing scheduling algorithms from high-level models
• A branch-and-cut algorithm for integer bi-level linear programs
• A principled approach to mixed integer/linear problem formulation
• Experiments with branching using general disjunctions
• A weight annealing algorithm for solving two-dimensional bin packing problems
• Solving the maximum cardinality bin packing problem with a weight annealing-based algorithm
• Combinatorial design of a stochastic Markov decision process
• A primal-dual slack approach to warmstarting interior-point methods for linear programming
• Linear dynamic programming and the training of sequences estimators
• Approximate algorithms for maximizing the capacity of the reverse link in multiple-class CDMA systems
• Mathematical formulations and metaheuristics comparison for the push-tree problem
• Two-edge disjoint survivable network design problem with relays
• Generating random text networks for shortest path algorithms
• A branch-and-price algorithm for combined location and routing problems under capacity restrictions
• Using oriented random search to provide a set of alternative solutions to the capacitated vehicle routing problem
• Optimizing paths in the presence of spherical impediments
• Tailoring classifier hyperplanes to general metrics
• The multi-sensor nuclear threat detection problem
• Radiotherapy optimal design: an academic radiotherapy treatment design system
• Integrated forecasting and inventory control for seasonal demand
• A provably good global routing algorithm in multilayer IC and MCM layout designs
• Eliminating Poissons spot with linear programming
• Index.