Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic
relationship and this book - as a part of the Operations Research and
Computer Science Interface Series - sits squarely in the center of the
confluence of these two technical research communities. The research
presented in the volume is evidence of the expanding frontiers of these
two intersecting disciplines and provides researchers and practitioners
with new work in the areas of logic programming, stochastic
optimization, heuristic search and post-solution analysis for integer
programs.
The chapter topics span the spectrum of application level. Some of the
chapters are highly applied and others represent work in which the
application potential is only beginning. In addition, each chapter
contains expository material and reviews of the literature designed to
enhance the participation of the reader in this expanding interface.