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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A216243. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: An instance of the geometric knapsack problem occurs in air lift loading where a set of cargo must be chosen to pack in a given fleet of aircraft. This paper demonstrates a new heuristic to solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time with a higher quality solution then previously reported in literature. We also report a new tabu search heuristic to solve geometric knapsack problems. We then employ our novel heuristics in a Master and slave relationship, where the knapsack heuristic selects a set of cargo and the packing heuristic determines if that set is feasible. The search incorporates learning mechanisms that react to cycles and thus is robust over a large set of problem sizes. The new knapsack and packing heuristics compare favorably with the best reported efforts in the literature. Additionally, we show the JAVA language to be an effective language for implementing the heuristics. The search is then used in a real world problem of determining how much cargo can be packed with a given fleet of aircraft. ... Read more

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Title: Your best search engine strategy.(On The Web)
Author: Allan Sweatt
Publication: Modern Machine Shop (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 78Issue: 4Page: 34(1)

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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on July 1, 1999. The length of the article is 7037 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Evaluation of minimum zone for flatness by normal plane method and simplex search.
Author: Sampath Damodarasamy
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1999
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A526163. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This paper presents a methodology for solving military aircraft load- scheduling problems modeled as a multidimensional multiple knapsack problem, Because of the computational time associated with applying conventional algorithms to this type of problem, we employ tabu search to determine how much cargo a heterogeneous group of aircraft can carry. This study extends the previous work of Chocolaad in two areas. First, we modify Chocolaad's algorithms to solve the multiple (rather than the single) knapsack problem under the constraints he defmed for the Airlift Loading Problem. Second, we drop his assumption of a homogeneous group of aircraft. We validate our model by confirming its solutions with cargo loadmasters, and comparing the performance of our algorithm with the benchmark ALM. ... Read more

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A921923. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Operations managers are typically faced with the need to find good solutions to difficult problems. Such problems include job scheduling, assembly line balancing, process layout, project scheduling, and facilities locations. Although optimal solutions are preferable, the combinatorial nature of these problems means that in many cases problems found in practical applications cannot be solved to optimality within reasonable resources. In these cases, operations managers turns to heuristics. Since the early 1980s, much interest has been devoted to the development and application of three general heuristic algorithms: tabu search, simulated annealing, and genetic algorithms. Each of them specifies a strategy for searching the solution space of a problem looking for "good" local optima. From a practical point of view, we would like to know if any of these methods is indeed better than the other two. In this research study we conduct an empirical comparison of these three heuristic algorithms using three variants of the facilities location problem: capacitated (CFLP), multiple-periods (MP-FLP), and multiple-commodities (MC-FLP). The selection of three different problem structures allowed us to explore the behavior of the heuristics under different circumstances and constraints. Furthermore, none of the heuristics have been previously applied to these problems. ... Read more

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A966163. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis employs a reactive tabu search heuristic implemented in the Java programming language to solve a real world variation of the vehicle routing problem with the objective of providing quality routes to Mobility Analysis Support System (MASS). MASS is a stochastic simulation model used extensively by Air Mobility Command (AMC) to analyze strategic airlift capabilities and future procurement decisions. This dynamic real world problem of strategic and tactical airlift possesses a number of side constraints such as vehicle capacities, route length and time windows in a sizeable network with multiple depots and a large fleet of heterogeneous vehicles. Finding optimal solutions to this problem is currently not practical. Currently, MASS requires all possible routes used in its simulation to be manually selected. As a result, the route selection process is a tedious and time consuming process that relies on experience and past performance of the model to obtain quality routes for the mobility system. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Computers and Operations Research, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The economic lot scheduling problem (ELSP) is the challenge of accommodating several products to be produced on a single machine in a cyclical pattern. A solution involves determining the repetitive production schedule for N products with a goal of minimizing the total of setup and holding costs. We develop the genetic lot scheduling (GLS) procedure. This method combines an extended solution structure with a new item scheduling approach, allowing a greater number of potential schedules to be considered while being the first to explicitly state the assignment of products to periods as part of the solution structure. We maintain efficient solution feasibility determination, a problematic part of ELSP solution generation and a weakness of several other methods, by employing simple but effective sequencing rules that create ''nested'' schedules. We create a binary chromosomal representation of the new problem formulation and utilize a genetic algorithm to efficiently search for low cost ELSP solutions. The procedure is applied to a benchmark problem suite from the literature, including Bomberger's stamping problem [Bomberger, A dynamic programming approach to a lot scheduling problem. Management Science 1966; 12:778-84], a problem that has been under investigation since the mid 1960's. The genetic lot scheduling procedure produces impressive results, including the best solutions obtained to date on some problems. Scope and purpose: The need to utilize a single facility to produce several items is a common situation. We study the fundamental form of this situation, the economic lot scheduling problem (ELSP). The ELSP involves determining the minimal cost production schedule for several items that must be produced on a single machine while meeting all demands for each product. Setup costs and times are incurred each time the machine is changed (setup) to produce a different item. Holding costs are incurred based on the average amount of an item held in inventory. We must determine how much of each item should be made in each production run as well as the order of production. Examples of ELSP situations include producing several different colors of paint on the same equipment, and producing several types of stamped metal parts with the same stamping press. Since the ELSP is NP-complete, research, dating back to the 1950's, has focused on developing efficient heuristics that yield quality solutions. Our purpose is to develop an efficient heuristic search procedure for the ELSP that addresses shortcomings of previous methods. We present an extended and more definitive solution structure than previous ELSP methods, one that allows a direct mapping of solution parameters to an implementable production schedule. In addition, we address solution feasibility testing issues and structure our problem formulation in a manner that allows efficient search via a genetic algorithm (GA). We create a non-hybridized GA-based procedure that produces ELSP solutions of excellent quality, in some cases the best solutions to date. ... Read more

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A713873. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis provides a preliminary cost and operational effectiveness analysis of alternative force structures for the United States Marine Corpsoperational support airlift and search and rescue missions. The four alternative force structures include C-12s and CH-46Es, C-35s and CH-46Es and HV-609s.Lifecycle cost analysis of the alternative force structures using Crystal Baliforecasting provides a 90% upper confidence level lifecycle cost estimate thatidentifies a mix of C-35s for operational support airlift and CH-46Es for search and rescue as the least expensive alternative. Operational effectivenessanalysis provides a measure of overall utility for each of the four alternativeforce structures based on five measures of effectiveness. The measures ofeffectiveness examined are air travel time, total travel time, landing siterequirements, range versus time on station, and payload versus range. Analytical hierarchy process rankings indicate that the HV-609 is the preferred alternative considering these measures of effectiveness. Analysis of cost versus operational effectiveness identifies the HV-609 as the most cost and operationally effective alternative for fulfilling the Marine Corps operational support airlift andsearch and rescue missions. ... Read more

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This book covers four optimisation techniques loosely classified as intelligent: genetic algorithms, tabu search, simulated annealing and neural networks. Genetic algorithms locate optima using processes similar to those in natural selection and genetics. Tabu search is a heuristic procedure that employs dynamically generated constraints or tabus to guide the search for optimum solutions. Simulated annealing find optima in a way analogous to the reaching of minimum energy configurations in metal annealing. Neural networks are computational models of the brain. Certain types of neural networks can be used for optimisation by exploiting their inherent ability to evolve in the direction of the negative gradient of an energy function and to reach a stable minimum of that function. Aimed at engineers, the book gives a concise introduction to the four techniques, and presents a range of applications. ... Read more

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Very useful book
This is a very useful book. It starts by introducing very important and interesting techniques in optimisation i.e. genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and neural networks. It continues by giving examples of how the techniques have been applied in various case studies. The book also contains code so that users have a head start in implementing the techniques described. This book is good for beginners because it describes the basics of the techniques. It is also suitable for more advanced researchers because the case studies provoke ideas for further work. In conclusion, this book is a useful addition to the bookshelf of any researcher interested in intelligent optimisation.

The worst book ever
I bought this book because it has source code for simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, tabu search and neural networks.
I have used the three first source code and ... they are so buggy.
They're wrote in C but doesn't compile due to evident syntax errors (so evident, are they here so as to made these source code unusable ?).
The content of the book is not equilibrate (some metaheuristics aren't discussed thoroughly).
If the authors use there source code, I think evereything presented in this book is completely false.
Don't buy it, there are some better books to buy.

Superficial
This book gave a superficial coverage on 4 optimization techniques in Chapter 1.Out of the 4 techniques, only Genetic Algorithm was explained slighty more in detail.The rest are merely short examples.That is about all you will get from this book (one brief Chapter on ALL 4 techniques). ... Read more

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Title: New injection machines & processes to debut at K 2007.(INJECTION: Close-Up)
Author: Matthew H. Naitove
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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We extend the dynasearch technique, recently proposed by Congram et al., in the context of time-dependent combinatorial optimization problems. As an application we consider a general time-dependent (idleness) version of the well known single-machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem, in which the processing time of a job depends on its starting time of execution. We develop a multi-start local search algorithm and present experimental results on several types of instances showing the superiority of the dynasearch neighborhood over the traditional one. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Modern Machine Shop, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 550 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Meeting dates.(Calendar)
Publication: Modern Machine Shop (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 78Issue: 7Page: 60(2)

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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We consider the problem of partitioning a set of positive integers values into a given number of subsets, each having an associated cardinality limit, so that the maximum sum of values in a subset is minimized, and the number of values in each subset does not exceed the corresponding limit. The problem is related to scheduling and bin packing problems. We give combinatorial lower bounds, reduction criteria, constructive heuristics, a scatter search approach, and a lower bound based on column generation. The outcome of extensive computational experiments is presented. ... Read more