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...

Sebastian Meiswinkel studies optimization problems that arise at container ports from a classic optimization as well as from a mechanism design point of view. The first part of this dissertation is focused on scheduling problems with selfish job owners that have private information about their...

Planungsprobleme am Containerterminal -- Das RMG-System als potentieller Engpass -- RMG-Optimierung eines Lagerblockes -- Verfahren zur integrierten Transportoptimierung -- Vergleich der Optimierungsansätze.

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....

Steuerung von Werkstattfertigungssystemen -- Modelle und Lösungsansätze zur Steuerung -- Neues Modell zur adaptiven Steuerung -- Konzept zur Steuerung -- Sequentielle und parallele Algorithmen für das neue Modell -- Analyse und exemplarische Validierung der neuen Algorithmen --...