La infructuosa búsqueda de la solución óptima

Abstract

La b´usqueda de la soluci´on ´optima a un problema de optimizaci´on ha sido el objetivo de generaciones de investigadores. El desarrollo de procedimientos capaces de encontrar la mejor soluci´on posible a un problema de optimizaci´on complejo, as´ı como el m´etodo capaz de demostrar que dicha soluci´on es la mejor, ha sido un aut´entico quebradero de cabeza para cient´ıficos de numerosas disciplinas. Sin embargo, en ocasiones, la calidad de la soluci´on es tan importante como el tiempo empleado en encontrarla. Esto es especialmente relevante en entornos reales, donde habitualmente se requiere una respuesta r´apida ante situaciones cotidianas

Eduardo García Pardo

Full Professor

One of the founders of the investigation group GRAFO, whose main line of research is the development of algorithms to tackle optimization problems, the topic of the researcher’s Doctoral Thesis and which their most notable publications are framed.

Abraham Duarte

Full Professor

Abraham Duarte is Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). He has done extensive research in the interface between computer science, artificial intelligence, and operations research to develop solution methods based on Computational Intelligence (metaheuristics) for practical problems in operations-management areas such as logistics and supply chains, telecommunications, decision-making under uncertainty and optimization of simulated systems.