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This chapter presents real-world applications of previously discussed modern optimization methods: traveling salesman problem, time series forecasting, and wine quality classification.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Paulo Cortez

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Cortez, P. (2021). Applications. In: Modern Optimization with R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72819-9_7

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