Download or read book Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in their Interfaces written by Osman Balci and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interface of Operation Research and Computer Science - although elusive to a precise definition - has been a fertile area of both methodological and applied research. The papers in this book, written by experts in their respective fields, convey the current state-of-the-art in this interface across a broad spectrum of research domains which include optimization techniques, linear programming, interior point algorithms, networks, computer graphics in operations research, parallel algorithms and implementations, planning and scheduling, genetic algorithms, heuristic search techniques and data retrieval.