Overview
- Explains metaheuristics at a basic level for easy understanding
- Allows master's students with various backgrounds to understand and apply these techniques to decision-making problems in business analytics
- No previous knowledge of programming languages such as Java or C++ is required
- Introduces the concepts in a familiar environment (Microsoft Excel)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: EURO Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research (EUROATOR)
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Extra Material can be downloaded at http://extras.springer.com/978-3-319-68117-7.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Manuel Laguna is the MediaOne Professor of Management Science and Director of Global Initiatives at the Leeds School of Business of the University of Colorado Boulder. He started his academic career at the University of Colorado in 1990, after receiving master’s (1987) and doctoral (1990) degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.He has done extensive research in the interface between computer science, artificial intelligence and operations research, resulting in ove
r one hundred publications, including four books. He has received research funding from private industry and government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Environmental Protection Agency. He is co-founder of OptTek Systems, a Boulder-based software and consulting company that provides optimization solutions. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Heuristics and has been Division Chair, Senior Associate Dean and Interim Dean at the Leeds School of Business.
Rafael Martí is Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Valencia, Spain. He received a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1994. He has done extensive research in metaheuristics for hard optimization problems.Dr Martí has about 200 publications, half of them in indexed journals (JCR), including EJOR, Informs JoC, IIE Transactions, JOGO, C&OR, and Discrete and Applied Maths. He is the co-author of Scatter Search (Kluwer 2003) and The Linear Ordering Problem (Springer 2011) monographs, and has secured an American patent. Prof. Martí is currently Area Editor in the Journal of Heuristics,Associate Editor in the Math. Prog. Computation, and the Int. Journal of Metaheuristics. He is Senior Research Associate of OptTek Systems (USA), and has given about 50 invited and plenary talks. Dr. Martí has been invited Professor at the University of Colorado (USA), University of Molde (Norway), University of Graz (Austria), and University of Bretagne-Sud (France.)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metaheuristics for Business Analytics
Book Subtitle: A Decision Modeling Approach
Authors: Abraham Duarte, Manuel Laguna, Rafael Marti
Series Title: EURO Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68119-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68117-7Published: 01 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88552-0Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68119-1Published: 24 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-687X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6888
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 136
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Simulation and Modeling