Logic-Based Methods for Optimization

Download or read book Logic-Based Methods for Optimization written by John Hooker and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Logic-Based Methods for Optimization develops for the first time a comprehensive conceptual framework for integrating optimization and constraint satisfaction, then goes a step further and shows how extending logical inference to optimization allows for more powerful as well as flexible modeling and solution techniques. Designed to be easily accessible to industry professionals and academics in both operations research and artificial intelligence, the book provides a wealth of examples as well as elegant techniques and modeling frameworks ready for implementation."--BOOK JACKET.