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René V. V. Vidal
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Operations Research, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-VIII
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- R. Diekmann, R. Lüling, J. Simon
Pages 17-44
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- Maria Rosália Dinis Rodrigues, António José Batel Anjo
Pages 45-60
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- Klaus Andersen, René Victor Valqui Vidal
Pages 61-83
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- Poul Dige, Carlo Lund, Hans F. Ravn
Pages 151-174
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- Pierre Chardaire, Jean Luc Lutton
Pages 175-199
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- Klaus Andersen, René Victor Valqui Vidal, Villy Bæk Iversen
Pages 201-215
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- José Fernando C. Oliveira, José A. Soeiro Ferreira
Pages 255-273
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- B. Liégeois, M. Pirlot, J. Teghem, E. Trauwaert, D. Tuyttens
Pages 275-290
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- V. B. Iversen, J. M. Rygaard, R. V. V. Vidal
Pages 335-353
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Back Matter
Pages 361-364
About this book
In February 1992, I defended my doctoral thesis: Engineering Optimiza tion - selected contributions (IMSOR, The Technical University of Den mark, 1992, p. 92). This dissertation presents retrospectively my central contributions to the theoretical and applied aspects of optimization. When I had finished my thesis I became interested in editing a volume related to a new expanding area of applied optimization. I considered several approaches: simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, neural networks, heuristics, expert systems, generalized multipliers, etc. Finally, I decided to edit a volume related to simulated annealing. My main three reasons for this choice were the following: (i) During the last four years my colleagues at IMSOR and I have car ried out several applied projects where simulated annealing was an essential. element in the problem-solving process. Most of the avail able reports and papers have been written in Danish. After a short review I was convinced that most of these works deserved to be pub lished for a wider audience. (ii) After the first reported applications of simulated annealing (1983- 1985), a tremendous amount of theoretical and applied work have been published within many different disciplines. Thus, I believe that simulated annealing is an approach that deserves to be in the curricula of, e.g. Engineering, Physics, Operations Research, Math ematical Programming, Economics, System Sciences, etc. (iii) A contact to an international network of well-known researchers showed that several individuals were willing to contribute to such a volume.
Editors and Affiliations
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Operations Research, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
René V. V. Vidal