Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence: The Integration of Problem-Solving Strategies

I. Search -- Toward the Modeling, Evaluation and Optimization of Search Algorithms -- Genetic Algorithms Applications to Set Covering and Traveling Salesman Problems -- Discovering and Refining Algorithms Through Machine Learning -- II. Uncertainty Management -- Using Probabilities as Control Knowledge to Search for Relevant Problem Models in Automated Reasoning -- On the Marshalling of Evidence and the Structuring of Argument -- Hybrid Systems for Failure Diagnosis -- III. Imprecise Reasoning -- Default Reasoning Through Integer Linear Programming -- The Problem of Determining Membership Values in Fuzzy Sets in Real World Situations -- IV. Decision Analysis and Decision Support -- Applications of Utility Theory in Artificial Intelligence Research -- A Multicriteria Stratification Framework for Uncertainty and Risk Analysis -- Dispute Mediation: A Computer Model -- V. Mathematical Programming and AI -- Eliciting Knowledge Representation Schema for Linear Programming Formulation -- A Knowledge Base for Integer Programming—A Meta-OR Approach -- VI. Performance Analysis and Complexity Management of Expert Systems -- Validator, A Tool for Verifying and Validating Personal Computer Based Expert Systems -- Measuring and Managing Complexity in Knowledge-Based Systems: A Network and Mathematical Programming Approach -- Pragmatic Information-Seeking Strategies for Expert Classification Systems -- VII. Applications -- A Knowledge- and Optimization-Based Approach to Scheduling in Automated Manufacturing Systems -- An Integrated Management Information System for Wastewater Treatment Plants -- About the Authors.