Next Wave in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies (eBook)

Contents 6
Preface 9
NETWORKS 10
ON THE COMPLEXITY OF DELAYING AN ADVERSARY'S PROJECT 11
A NOTE ON ESWARAN AND TARJAN'S ALGORITHM FOR THE STRONG CONNECTIVITY AUGMENTATION PROBLEM 26
INTEGER AND MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING 34
GENERATING SET PARTITIONING TEST PROBLEMS WITH KNOWN OPTIMAL INTEGER SOLUTIONS 35
COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF CONTROLLED TABULAR ADJUSTMENT: ALGORITHM AND ANALYSIS 51
THE SYMPHONY CALLABLE LIBRARY FOR MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING 66
HEURISTIC SEARCH 82
HYBRID GRAPH HEURISTICS WITHIN A HYPER- HEURISTIC APPROACH TO EXAM TIMETABLING PROBLEMS 83
METAHEURISTICS COMPARISON FOR THE MINIMUM LABELLING SPANNING TREE PROBLEM 96
A NEW TABU SEARCH HEURISTIC FOR THE SITE- DEPENDENT VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM 110
A HEURISTIC METHOD TO SOLVE THE SIZE ASSORTMENT PROBLEM 123
HEURISTIC METHODS FOR SOLVING EUCLIDEAN NON- UNIFORM STEINER TREE PROBLEMS 135
MODELING AND SOLVING A SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM 151
SOLVING THE TIME DEPENDENT TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM 165
THE MAXIMAL MULTIPLE- REPRESENTATION SPECIES PROBLEM SOLVED USING HEURISTIC CONCENTRATION 185
STOCHASTIC MODELING 201
FAST AND EFFICIENT MODEL-BASED CLUSTERING WITH THE ASCENT- EM ALGORITHM 202
STATISTICAL LEARNING THEORY IN EQUITY RETURN FORECASTING 214
SAMPLE PATH DERIVATIVES FOR ( s, S) INVENTORY SYSTEMS WITH PRICE DETERMINATION 230
SOFTWARE AND MODELING 248
NETWORK AND GRAPH MARKUP LANGUAGE ( NaGML) - DATA FILE FORMATS 249
SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING SYSTEMS 267
MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION WITH Mathematica ™ 285
VERIFICATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGNS USING MAPS 303
ALPS: A FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING PARALLEL TREE SEARCH ALGORITHMS 319
CLASSIFICATION, CLUSTERING, AND RANKING 335
TABU SEARCH ENHANCED MARKOV BLANKET CLASSIFIER FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA SETS 336
DANCE MUSIC CLASSIFICATION USING INNER METRIC ANALYSIS 354
ASSESSING CLUSTER QUALITY USING MULTIPLE MEASURES - A DECISION TREE BASED APPROACH 370
DISPERSION OF GROUP JUDGMENTS 384