M. Laguna and J. L. González-Velarde
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (2000)
This edited book contains papers presented in the seventh IFORMS Computing Society conference held in Cancún, México on January 5-7, 2000. The book is an addition to the Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research series. The title of the book reflects the need for preserving the marriage between operations research and computing in order to create more efficient and powerful software tools in the years ahead. (Although the editors are well aware of the fact that the new millennium does not start until January 1, 2001.)
The 17 papers included in this volume were carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics related to the interface between operations research and computer science. The volume includes the now perennial applications of metaheuritics (such as genetic algorithms, scatter search, and tabu search) as well as research on global optimization, knowledge management, software maintainability and object-oriented modeling. These topics reflect the complexity and variety of the problems that current and future software tools must be capable of tackling. The OR/CS interface is frequently at the core of successful applications and the development of new methodologies, making the research in this book a relevant reference in the future.
We believe that both researchers and practitioners will benefit from this book. For example, the tutorial papers may spark the interest of practitioners for developing and applying new techniques to complex problems. Also, the book includes papers that explore new angles of well-established methods for problems in the area of nonlinear optimization and mixed integer programming, which seasoned researchers in these fields may find fascinating.
Our goal for this book has been to increase the interest in the interface of computer science and operations research. We also wanted to maintain the standard of excellence established by the previous volumes in this series. We hope that we have accomplished both and that you enjoy reading this book, while finding inspiration for additional research in the area.
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