Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Complex Systems
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Study Guide to Week 7&8
Date: 2002-4-9
The purpose of this week is to introduce the basic concepts behind Ordinal Optimization, a very
important and useful idea when computing resource is limited.
READING ASSIGNMENT
The main part in this week is an OO module on the web. It is on
http://hrl.harvard.edu/people/faculty/ho/DEDS/OO/OOTOC.html
We also copy the corresponding files in this CD. Thus you can read the two-week self-teaching
module on OO directly.
The basic idea of OO and some additional issues
Yu-Chi Ho, An explanation ordinal optimization: Soft computing for hard problems, Information
Sciences, 1999
Y-C Ho, CG Cassandras, C-H Chen and L Dai, Ordinal optimization and simulation, Journal of
Operational Research Society, 2000.5
HOME WORK ASSIGNMENT
See also the Homework Problems in the self-teaching module.
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