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available, links are provided in the reference text. By clicking on such a link, the Adobe
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of a site that links to the document). After reading it, the student may use the “backwards”
button in the navigation utility to go back to the text initially read in the e-book.
The contents of this book are divided into four parts. In the first part, different optimization
technologies will be introduced and their features are described. Often, small examples will
be given in order to ease understanding. In the second part starting at page
315, we elab-
orate on different application examples in detail. With the Sigoa framework, one possible
implementation of optimization algorithms in Java, is discussed and we show how some of
solutions of the previous problem instances can be realized in
Part III on page 439. Finally,
in the last part following at page 455, the background knowledge is provided for the rest of
the book. Optimization is closely related to stochastic, and hence, an introduction into this
subject can be found here. Other important background information concerns theoretical
computer science and clustering algorithms.
However, this book is currently worked on. It is still in a very preliminary phase where
major parts are still missing or under construction. Other sections or texts are incomplete
(tagged with
TODO). There may as well be errors in the contents or issues may be stated
ambiguously (I do not have proof-readers). Additionally, the sequence of the content is not
very good. Because of frequent updates, small sections may grow and become chapters, be
moved to another place, merged with other sections, and so on. Thus, this book will change
often. I choose to update, correct, and improve this book continuously instead of providing
a new version each half year or so because I think this way it has a higher utility because
it provides more information earlier. By doing so, I also risk confusing you with strange
grammar and structure, so if you find something fishy, please let me know so I can correct
and improve it right away.
The updates and improvements will result in new versions of the book, which will regularly
appear on the website
http://www.it-weise.de/. The direct download link to the newest
version of this book is http://www.it-weise.de/projects/book.pdf. The L
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code of this book including all graphics and the bibliography is available at
http://www.
it-weise.de/projects/bookSource.zip. The source may not always be the one of the
most current version of the book. Compiling it requires multiple runs of BibT
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the nifty way the references are incorporated.
I would be very happy if you provide feedback, report errors or missing things that you have
found, criticize something, or have any additional ideas or suggestions. Do not hesitate to
contact me via my email address tweise@gmx.de.
Matter of fact, a large number of people helped me to improve this book over time. I
have enumerated the most important contributors in
Chapter C – Thank you guys, I really
appreciate your help!
Copyright
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2006-2009 Thomas Weise.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by
the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no
Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU F
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cense in appendix Chapter A on page 575.
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