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Combinatorial and Global Optimization

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Combinatorial and global optimization problems appear in a wide range of applications in operations research, engineering, biological science, and computer science

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Preface	p. vii
A Forest Exterior Point Algorithm for Assignment Problems	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
Preliminaries	p. 2
Description of the algorithm	p. 3
Correctness and complexity of the algorithm	p. 5
Concluding remarks	p. 9
References	p. 9
A Hybrid Scatter Genetic Tabu Approach for Continuous Global Optimization	p. 11
Introduction	p. 12
Genetic, scatter search and tabu serach approach	p. 13
HSGT algorithm description	p. 16
Weight computations	p. 18
Computational results	p. 20
Conclusions and recommendations	p. 21
Test functions	p. 22
References	p. 29
Exact Rates of Prokhorov Convergence under Three Moment Conditions	p. 33
Main result	p. 34
Outline of proof	p. 38
References	p. 42
Location/Allocation of Queuing Facilities in Continuous Space using Minsum and Minimax Criteria	p. 43
Introduction	p. 44
The model	p. 45
A solution method	p. 48
Computational results	p. 50
Conclusions	p. 52
References	p. 52
Algorithms for the Consistency Analysis in Scenario Projects	p. 55
Introduction	p. 56
Definitions	p. 58
Complexity	p. 59
Algorithms	p. 63
Conclusions	p. 72
References	p. 72
Assignment of Reusable and Non-Reusable Frequencies	p. 75
Introduction	p. 76
Definitions and techniques	p. 77
The complexity of radio coloring and radio labelling	p. 81
An exact algorithm for constant number of colors	p. 84
Algorithms for on-line radio labelling	p. 90
Open problems	p. 93
References	p. 94
Image Space Analysis for Vector Optimization and Variational Inequalities. Scalarization	p. 97
Introduction	p. 98
A separation scheme	p. 99
On the scalarization of vector optimization	p. 101
Vector variational inequalities	p. 105
References	p. 108
Solving Quadratic Knapsack Problems by Reformulation and Tabu Search. Single Constraint Case	p. 111
Introduction	p. 112
Reformulation	p. 113
Computational experiments	p. 115
Summary and conclusions	p. 119
Overview of our tabu search algorithm	p. 120
References	p. 120
Global Optimization using Dynamic Search Trajectories	p. 123
Introduction	p. 124
The Snyman-Fatti trajectory method	p. 125
The modified bouncing ball trajectory method	p. 127
Global stopping criterion	p. 128
Numerical results	p. 129
Conclusions	p. 131
References	p. 131
On Pareto Efficiency. A General Constructive Existence Principle	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
Preliminaries	p. 135
The main result	p. 136
Realizations of Theorem 1	p. 137
References	p. 142
Piecewise Linear Network Flow Problems	p. 145
Introduction	p. 146
Applications	p. 156
Concluding remarks	p. 157
References	p. 158
Semidefinite Programming Approaches for MAX-2-SAT and MAX-3-SAT: computational perspectives	p. 161
Introduction	p. 162
The SDP relaxation of MAX-2-SAT	p. 162
Additional valid inequalities	p. 165
Solving the SDP relaxation of MAX-2-SAT	p. 166
A branch and cut framework	p. 168
Numerical experiments	p. 171
Future work	p. 172
References	p. 175
On a Data Structure in a Global Description of Sequences	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
Structural numbers and their geometric interpretation	p. 179
Structural numbers as coordinates of a space and a system of linear equations	p. 181
Integer patterns: Means for the visualization of the system	p. 185
What picture appears when the system is visualized: An illustrative example	p. 186
Definition of the structure and its isomorphic representations: Web of relations	p. 191
On descriptive potentialities of the structure: Simple examples of global optimization problems	p. 195
References	p. 203
Heuristic Solutions of Vehicle Routing Problems in Supply Chain Management	p. 205
Introduction	p. 206
Supply chain management	p. 206
The vehicle routing problem	p. 207
Classic heuristics for the traveling salesman and the vehicle routing problems	p. 210
Metaheuristics for the traveling salesman and the vehicle routing problems	p. 219
Computational results	p. 228
References	p. 231
A New Finite Cone Covering Algorithm for Concave Minimization	p. 237
Introduction	p. 238
Basic operations	p. 239
Algorithm	p. 246
Conclusions	p. 247
References	p. 247
A Diagonal Global Optimization Method	p. 251
Introduction	p. 252
Diagonal information global optimization algorithm and its new convergence conditions	p. 253
A new diagonal information algorithm	p. 256
Numerical results	p. 258
Conclusions	p. 260
References	p. 262
Frequency Assignment for Very Large, Sparse Networks	p. 265
Introduction	p. 266
Minimum order and minimum span assignments	p. 267
Alternate graph approach	p. 272
Local search	p. 275
Experimental results	p. 276
Conclusions	p. 280
References	p. 280
A Derivative Free Minimization Method for Noisy Functions	p. 283
Introduction	p. 283
Optimization of noisy functions	p. 284
A derivative-free minimization method for imprecise problems and its convergence	p. 286
Numerical applications	p. 289
Concluding remarks	p. 293
References	p. 294
Tight QAP Bounds via Linear Programming	p. 297
LP-based lower bounds for the QAP	p. 298
Experimental results	p. 299
Concluding remarks	p. 301
References	p. 302
GPS Network Design: An Application of the Simulated Annealing Heuristic Technique	p. 305
Introduction	p. 306
Simulated annealing technique	p. 307
Formulation of the GPS surveying problem	p. 307
The GPS-simulated annealing algorithm	p. 309
Computational results	p. 309
Further work and conclusion	p. 310
References	p. 311
Global Optimization for Crack Identification: Impact-Echo Experiments	p. 317
Introduction	p. 317
Global optimization for inverse problems	p. 319
Mechanical modelling	p. 320
Inverse problem	p. 326
Conclusion	p. 328
References	p. 329
Normal Branch and Bound Algorithms for General Nonconvex Quadratic Programming	p. 333
Introduction	p. 333
A generic BB algorithm	p. 335
Examples	p. 338
Quadratic system equivalent to a linear system	p. 340
General decoupling scheme	p. 344
Linear relaxations	p. 345
Semidefinite relaxation	p. 349
References	p. 353
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