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In this paper we discuss how search, and in particular optimization, can be used as a solution method in operational decision support systems. We first give a sketch of planning problems that can formally model operational decision problems. Thereafter we discuss how planning problems and search problems can be related and hereby the role of search is clarified. Optimization problems are identified as a special type of search problems having a special aim: finding the optimal value of a given object function. Search procedures to solve search problems are treated at last. We describe a General Search Procedure consisting of a constructive and an iterative part and enlighten how approximative optimization procedures are related to it.
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Eiben, A.E. (1992). Search based planning for decision support. In: Beulens, A.J.M., Sebastian, HJ. (eds) Optimization-Based Computer-Aided Modelling and Design. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0040135
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