Progressive hedging (PH) is a scenario-based decomposition technique for solving stochastic programs. While PH has been successfully applied to a number of problems, a variety of issues arise when implementing PH in practice, especially when dealing with very difficult or large-scale...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book - as a part of the Operations Research and Computer Science Interface Series - sits squarely in the center of the confluence of these two technical research communities. The research presented in...