TY - BOOK AU - Ferreira,Afonso AU - Pardalos,Panos ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Parallel: Methods and Techniques T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 9783540498759 AV - QA75.5-76.95 U1 - 004.0151 23 PY - 1996/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Computer aided design KW - Numerical analysis KW - Combinatorics KW - Management information systems KW - Computer Science KW - Computation by Abstract Devices KW - Numerical Analysis KW - Business Information Systems KW - Systems and Information Theory in Engineering KW - Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design N1 - SCOOP: Solving Combinatorial Optimization problems in parallel -- Parallel approximation of optimization problems -- Randomized parallel algorithms -- Automatic synthesis of parallel algorithms -- An introduction to parallel dynamic programming -- Mapping tree-structured combinatorial optimization problems onto parallel computers -- Towards an abstract parallel branch and bound machine -- Parallel best-first branch- and-bound in discrete optimization: A framework -- Building a parallel branch and bound library -- Parallel algorithms for global optimization problems -- Parallel heuristic search — Introductions and a new approach N2 - Solving combinatorial optimization problems can often lead to runtime growing exponentially as a function of the input size. But important real-world problems, industrial applications, and academic research challenges, may demand exact optimal solutions. In such situations, parallel processing can reduce the runtime from days or months, typical when one workstation is used, to a few minutes or even seconds. Partners of the CEC-sponsored SCOOP Project (Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Parallel) contributed, on invitation, to this book; much attention was paid to competent coverage of the topic and the style of writing. Readers will include students, scientists, engineers, and professionals interested in the design and implementation of parallel algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027114 ER -