{"title":"Evolutionary Computation: An Emerging Framework for Practical Single and Multicriterion Optimization and Decision Making","authors":"K. Deb","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122900093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discrete Choice Models and Applications in Operations Management","authors":"Ruxian Wang","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114173592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine Learning for Optimal Power Flows","authors":"P. Van Hentenryck","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131738892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Game Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"A. Nagurney","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127851353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response-Guided Dosing in Cancer Radiotherapy","authors":"A. Ghate","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121769384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exactness in Semidefinite Progam Relaxations of Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs: Theory and Applications","authors":"F. Kılınç-Karzan, Alex L. Wang","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122186633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth L. Bouzarth, B. Grannan, John M. Harris, K. Hutson, Peter J. Keating
{"title":"Storytelling with Sports Analytics","authors":"Elizabeth L. Bouzarth, B. Grannan, John M. Harris, K. Hutson, Peter J. Keating","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116099121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simulation models are widely used in practice to facilitate decision-making in a complex, dynamic and stochastic environment. But they are computationally expensive to execute and optimize, due to lack of analytical tractability. Simulation optimization is concerned with developing efficient sampling schemes -- subject to a computational budget -- to solve such optimization problems. To mitigate the computational burden, surrogates are often constructed using simulation outputs to approximate the response surface of the simulation model. In this tutorial, we provide an up-to-date overview of surrogate-based methods for simulation optimization with continuous decision variables. Typical surrogates, including linear basis function models and Gaussian processes, are introduced. Surrogates can be used either as a local approximation or a global approximation. Depending on the choice, one may develop algorithms that converge to either a local optimum or a global optimum. Representative examples are presented for each category. Recent advances in large-scale computation for Gaussian processes are also discussed.
{"title":"Surrogate-Based Simulation Optimization","authors":"L. Hong, Xiaowei Zhang","doi":"10.1287/educ.2021.0225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/educ.2021.0225","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation models are widely used in practice to facilitate decision-making in a complex, dynamic and stochastic environment. But they are computationally expensive to execute and optimize, due to lack of analytical tractability. Simulation optimization is concerned with developing efficient sampling schemes -- subject to a computational budget -- to solve such optimization problems. To mitigate the computational burden, surrogates are often constructed using simulation outputs to approximate the response surface of the simulation model. In this tutorial, we provide an up-to-date overview of surrogate-based methods for simulation optimization with continuous decision variables. Typical surrogates, including linear basis function models and Gaussian processes, are introduced. Surrogates can be used either as a local approximation or a global approximation. Depending on the choice, one may develop algorithms that converge to either a local optimum or a global optimum. Representative examples are presented for each category. Recent advances in large-scale computation for Gaussian processes are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":331164,"journal":{"name":"Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Optimization Methods and Modeling Techniques with Applications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130085690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}