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UNINA9910816453203321 |
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Autore |
Gardi Frédéric |
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Mathematical programming solver based on local search / / Frédéric Gardi [and four others] |
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London, [England] ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
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1-118-96648-1 |
1-118-96646-5 |
1-118-96647-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (102 p.) |
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Collana |
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Focus Computer Engineering Series, , 2051-249X |
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Programming (Mathematics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Local Search: Methodology and Industrial Applications; 1.1. Our methodology: back to basics; 1.1.1. What are the needs in business and industry?; 1.1.2. The main ingredients of the recipe; 1.1.3. Enriching and enlarging neighborhoods; 1.1.4. High-performance software engineering; 1.2. Car sequencing for painting and assembly lines; 1.2.1. Search strategy and moves; 1.2.2. Enriching the moves and boosting their evaluation; 1.2.3. Experimental results and discussion |
1.3. Vehicle routing with inventory management1.3.1. State-of-the-art; 1.3.2. Search strategy and moves; 1.3.3. Incremental evaluation machinery; Chapter 2. Local Search for 0-1 Nonlinear Programming; 2.1. The LocalSolver project; 2.2. State-of-the-art; 2.3. Enriching modeling standards; 2.3.1. LocalSolver modeling formalism; 2.3.2. LocalSolver programming language; 2.4. The core algorithmic ideas; 2.4.1. Effective local search moves; 2.4.2. Incremental evaluation machinery; 2.5. Benchmarks; 2.5.1. Car sequencing; 2.5.2. Machine scheduling; 2.5.3. Quadratic assignment problem |
2.5.4. MIPLIB 2010Chapter 3. Toward an Optimization Solver Based on Neighborhood Search; 3.1. Using neighborhood search as global search strategy; 3.2. Extension to continuous and mixed optimization; 3.3. |
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Separating the computation of solutions and bounds; 3.4. A new-generation, hybrid mathematical programming solver; Bibliography; Lists of Figures and Tables; Index |
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This book covers local search for combinatorial optimization and its extension to mixed-variable optimization. Although not yet understood from the theoretical point of view, local search is the paradigm of choice for tackling large-scale real-life optimization problems. Today's end-users demand interactivity with decision support systems. For optimization software, this means obtaining good-quality solutions quickly. Fast iterative improvement methods, like local search, are suited to satisfying such needs. Here the authors show local search in a new light, in particular presenting a new k |
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UNINA9910967274003321 |
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Autore |
Rowell Andrew |
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Don't worry, it's safe to eat : the true story of GM food, BSE, & Foot and Mouth / / Andrew Rowell |
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London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Earthscan Publications, c2003 |
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1-136-56784-4 |
1-4175-2240-2 |
1-136-56785-2 |
1-280-47585-4 |
9786610475858 |
1-84977-103-0 |
600-00-0264-5 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Genetically modified foods - Great Britain |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Great Britain |
Foot-and-mouth disease - Great Britain |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-260) and index. |
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Don't Worry IT'S SAFE TO EAT: THE TRUE STORY OF GM FOOD, BSE & FOOT AND MOUTH; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Safe to Eat; BSE - a distant memory or living nightmare?; Relaxing the rules?; The only certainty is uncertainty; The first BSE outbreak; The Phillips Inquiry; MAFF - the 'Ministry of Truth'; Cover-up and censorship?; A slow policy of sedation; The Southwood Committee; Short-term economics continue to overrule long-term health; Chapter 3 Treated with Derision; Dr Alan Dickinson; Dr Tim Holt; Dr Helen Grant |
Professor Richard LaceyDr Stephen Dealler; Dr Harash Narang; Mark Purdey; Chapter 4 Silent Spread; Professor Fred Brown; Modelling your way into a mess; Small-holders speak out; To vaccinate or not to vaccinate; The not-so-public, public inquiries; Waste not, want not; Chapter 5 Hot Potato; Dr Arpad Pusztai; The Con A controversy; The 150 seconds that changed the GM debate; The riddle of the Rowett; Why were Pusztai's results so threatening?; The Audit; Chapter 6 The 'Star Chamber'; The Royal Society; The House of Commons Select Committee; The Royal Society Working Group; The Lancet |
The Royal Society revisitedChapter 7 Stars in their Eyes; The USA; StarLinkTM; Europe; Substantial equivalence; Chapter 8 Immoral Maize; A virtual world; The fall-out continues; Statements for and against; When is a retraction not a retraction?; Is GM contamination beneficial?; Chapter 9 Science for Sale; Realigning the Research Councils; What commercialization means for science; Corruption of integrity?; The degradation of science; Chapter 10 Whitehall Whitewash; The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; The Food Standards Agency |
Chapter 11 Towards Safe Food and Public Interest ScienceTowards safe and sustainable food; Public interest science; Notes; Index |
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An investigation of science, politics and our food production system, this text exposes the bogus science, political interference and flawed policies that threaten our food supply. The author tells the story of BSE, revealing how top scientists have been muzzled and how the epidemic continues. Then, against a backdrop of burning cows, Andrew Rowell exposes how trade and macro-economic policies overruled good science in the foot and mouth catastrophe. He also opens the black box of the so-called GM revolution to expose the myth behind the marketing. In tracing how critics are silenced in the bo |
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