We are proud to announce the winners of the Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks in 2006. This prize pays tribute to the high quality work at the interface of operations research and computer science pioneered by Fred Glover and Darwin Klingman. However, the award recognizes outstanding work in the general area of network modeling, analysis, and implementation, and is ...

An objective function often is only a rough approximation of the actual goals of the organization and its stakeholders. Consequently, an optimal solution may be no more interesting than other solutions that provide good values. Beyond this, a set of “good” solutions whose members have diverse characteristics can be significantly more valuable for practical analysis and planning than any single,...

2 H optimization was conceived to remove stochastics from LQG optimization (Doyle, Glover, Khargonekar, and Francis, 1989.) It relies on the observation that the customary signal-based mean square criterion of LQG optimization may be re-interpreted as a system norm (in particular, the 2 H norm), without direct reference to the signals that are involved. A moment's thought, however, reveals that...

A metaheuristic is a high-level problem-independent algorithmic framework that provides a set of guidelines or strategies to develop heuristic optimization algorithms (Sörensen and Glover, To appear). Notable examples of metaheuristics include genetic/evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, simulated annealing, and ant colony optimization, although many more exist. A problem-specific implementati...

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Extending our work on second-order cover cuts [F. Glover, H.D. Sherali, Second-order cover cuts, Mathematical Programming (ISSN: 0025-561

1. Better, M. and Glover, F. 2006. Selecting project portfolios by optimizing simulations. The Engineering Economist 51(2), pp. 81−97, DOI: 10.1080/00137910600695593. CrossRef Google Scholar

The aim if this work was to assess and propose projection models for diameter at breast height total of individual pine trees the contribution competition indexes in these models. Data obtained from 1056 permanent sampling units non-thinned Pinus taeda L. stands located Telêmaco Borba region, Paraná, Brazil, with ages between 3.4 19.5 years. In order project trees, linear were tested according ...