Full Description
This volume chronicles the high impact research career of Harvey Greenberg (1940-2018), and in particular, it reviews historical contributions, presents current research projects, and suggests future pursuits. This volume addresses several of his most distinguished hallmarks, including model analysis, model generation, infeasibility diagnosis, sensitivity analysis, parametric programming, energy modeling, and computational biology. There is also an overview chapter on the emergence of computational OR, and in particular, how literature venues have changed the course of OR research.
He developed Computer-Assisted Analysis in the 1970s and 80s, creating an artificially intelligent environment for analyzing mathematical programming models and their results. This earned him the first INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize for "research excellence in the interfaces between operations research and computer science" in 1986, notably for his software system, ANALYZE.
In 1993, he wrote the first book in the Springer OR/CS Series entitled A Computer-Assisted Analysis System for Mathematical Programming Models and Solutions: A User's Guide for ANALYZE. He applied OR methods to CS problems, ranging from using queuing theory for optimal list structure design to using integer programming for bioinformatic database search. He also applied CS to OR problems, ranging from super-sparse information structures to the use of compiler design in ANALYZE. This book can serve as a guide to new researchers, and will report the historical trajectory of OR as it solves current problems and forecasts future applications through the accomplishments of Harvey Greenberg.
Contents
Chapter 1: A Commemorative Review of Harvey Greenberg's Career.- Chapter 2: How the Work that Harvey and I Did at the Federal Energy Administration (later Department of Energy) Shaped Our Research Careers and Led to Our Decades Long Collaboration and Friendship.- Chapter 3: Software for an Intelligent Mathematical Programming System.- Chapter 4: Harvey Greenberg: Analyzing Infeasible Mathematical Programs.- Chapter 5: Development of Publications and Community at the Interface Between Operations Research and Computing.- Chapter 6 Parametric Stochastic Programming with One Chance Constraint: Gaining Insights from Response Space Analysis.- Chapter 7 An Analysis of Multiple Contaminant Warning System Design Objectives for Sensor Placement Optimization in Water Distribution Networks.- Chapter 8: A Simplex Approach to Solving Robust Metabolic Models with Low-Dimensional Uncertainty.
