TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ho,Yu-Chi
AU  - Zhao,Qian-Chuan
AU  - Jia,Qing-Shan
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems 
SN  - 9780387686929
AV  - TA329-348 
U1  - 519 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Engineering mathematics
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Computer engineering
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering
KW  - Computational Intelligence
KW  - Electrical Engineering
KW  - Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
KW  - Operations Research/Decision Theory
N1  - Ordinal Optimization Fundamentals -- Comparison of Selection Rules -- Vector Ordinal Optimization -- Constrained Ordinal Optimization -- Memory Limited Strategy Optimization -- Additional Extensions of the OO Methodology -- Real World Application Examples
N2  - Performance evaluation of increasingly complex human-made systems requires the use of simulation models. However, these systems are difficult to describe and capture by succint mathematical models. The purpose of this book is to address the difficulties of the optimization of complex systems via simulation models or other computation-intensive models involving possible stochastic effects and discrete choices. This book establishes distinct advantages of the "softer" ordinal approach for search-based type problems, analyzes its general properties, and shows the many orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency that is possible.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68692-9
ER  -