Top Ten Secrets to Success with Optimization
Abstract
The Department of Defense coordinates the activities of millions of people using assets
worth trillions of dollars. This is important, complex work. Computer-based decision
support is universal, and this has enabled optimization to continue to enhance legacy
manual planning methods. The success of real-world applications of optimization turns
out to depend on a handful of trade secrets that are essential, but do not appear in
textbooks. This short summary reveals ten of these secrets and motivates them by
example.
Description
This appears in PHALANX, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 12 ff, and is reprinted with
permission of Military Operations Society, 2004.