The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim of this work is to provide the reader with a...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The Forest Harvest Scheduling Optimization Problem. -- 3. Classic and Contemporary Influences on Forest Harvest Scheduling. -- 4. Solving Forest Harvest Scheduling Assignment Problems. -- 5. Harvest Scheduling Search Behavior. -- 6. Difficulty in...

"SimDec is a revolution in decision-making support. SimDec "teases out" inherent cause-and-effect relationships and reveals the intricacy of relationships between sets of input and output variables. At its core, SimDec is an amalgamation of uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis with an...

A Comparison of Large Scale Mixed Complementarity Problem Solvers -- Impact of Partial Separability on Large-Scale Optimization -- On the Number of Inner Iterations Per Outer Iteration of a Globally Convergent Algorithm for Optimization with General Nonlinear Inequality Constraints and Simple...