Subject: Special Tabu Search Issue of EJOR

From: Glover Fred <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:13:51 -0600 (MDT)

** JUST RELEASED **

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                 SPECIAL TABU SEARCH ISSUE
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          European Journal of Operational Research

           Volume 106, Numbers 2-3, April 16, 1998

    Contents - Main Headings of Tabu Search Applications:

    - Classical Scheduling  
    - Resource-Constrained Scheduling and Production
    - Telecommunications, Audit Scheduling, Nurse Scheduling and Forest
         Scheduling
    - Transportation and Location
    - Optimization in Graphs, Routing and Drawing
    - Neural Networks and Chunking
    - General Purpose Discrete, Zero-One and Nonlinear Solvers

                     Specific Topics:
             
Flow shop with parallel machines
Early/Tardy scheduling

Resource-constrained scheduling
Machine scheduling
Buffer location and size
Strip Mill production scheduling
Multiproduct production planning

Telecommunication network optimization
Audit scheduling
Nurse scheduling
Forest harvest schedules with green-up constraints
     
Feeder bus network design
Fixed charge transportation problem
Facility layout
Hub location
     
Large weighted equicut problems
Traveling salesman problem and ejection chains
Undirected selective traveling salesman problem
Separating capacity constraints in the CVRP
Bipartite graph drawing

Global optimization for artificial neural networks
Chunking

Constraint satisfaction and a general problem solver
Zero-one mixed integer programming
0-1 Multidimensional knapsacks
Nonlinear extreme point problems