This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems. After discussing the classical approaches described in...

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...

Ein wichtiges Teilgebiet des Operations Research ist die Projektplanung. Mit ihren Methoden kann der Ablauf unterschiedlicher in der Praxis auftretender Projekte geplant werden. Cord-Ulrich Fündeling entwickelt exakte und heuristische Lösungsverfahren für verschiedene Varianten eines...

This book provides successful implementations of metaheuristic methods for neural network training. It is the first book to achieve this objective. Moreover, the basic principles and fundamental ideas given in the book will allow the readers to create successful training methods on their own....

1 Einführung in die Problemstellung -- 1.1 Entscheidungsebenen der Produktionsplanung -- 1.2 Randbedingungen der operativen Produktionsplanung -- 1.3 Fallstudie: Chemische Industrie -- 2 Simultane und hierarchische Planung -- 2.1 Simultane Planung -- 2.2 Hierarchische Planung -- 3 Modellierung...

Introduction -- Assembly Systems -- Some Fundamentals -- Preliminary Planning -- Inventory Replenishments -- Single Model Assembly -- Mixed Model Make-to-Stock Assembly -- Mixed Model Make-to-Order Assembly -- Postponement Assembly -- One Station Assembly -- Similarity Index -- Learning Curves.

Disassembly is one of the key elements of any processing of recovered products. Be it for repair, remanufacturing, refurbishing, cannibalisation, material recycling, or disposal. Hence, planning the disassembly is important and—with growing amounts of recovered products and need for saving...