Abstract:
The first formal activities of Operations Research (OR) were initiated in England
during World War II, when a team of British scientists set out to assess the best utilization
of war materiel based on scientific principles rather than on ad hoc rules. After the
war, the ideas advanced in military operations were adapted to improve efficiency and
productivity in the civilian sector
Description:
Some mathematical models may be so complex that it becomes impossible to
solve them by any of the available optimization algorithms. In such cases, it may be
necessary to abandon the search for the optimal solution and simply seek a good solution
using heuristics or metaheuristics,
