Computer optimization techniques

Introduction ix Part One 1 Optimization in the Computer Age 3 2 Solving Integer Programming Problems by Looking at All Possibilities 15 3 Optimization Problems of Two through Eight Variables 25 Part Two 4 Monte Carlo Integer Programming 101 5 Integer Programming Problems with a Few Variables 115 6 Integer Programming Problems with a Many Variables 129 7 A Two Thousand-Variable Integer Programming Problem 147 8 The Unlimited Future of Monte Carol Integer Programming 171 Appendices A Sampling Distributions of Feasible Solutions of Selected Integer Programming Problems 207 B How to Obtain Sampling Distributions of Feasible Solutions of Integer Programming Problems 221 C How to Solve a System of Equations 229 D Additional Business Examples 235 E The Impact of Computers on the Philosophy of Optimization 263 Index 265