Fred W. Glover (born March 8, 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri) is known for his contributions to the area of
metaheuristics
In computer science and mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimiza ...
(a name he coined) and for launching the computer-based optimization methodology of
Tabu search Tabu search is a metaheuristic search method employing local search methods used for mathematical optimization. It was created by Fred W. Glover in 1986
and formalized in 1989.
Local (neighborhood) searches take a potential solution to a pro ...
and the associated evolutionary Scatter Search and Path Relinking algorithms. Glover's principal areas of research include the fields of analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and applied mathematics.
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Education
He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research
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in 1965 under Gerald L. Thompson
Gerald L. Thompson (born November 25, 1923, Rolfe, Iowa; died November 9, 2009 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was the IBM Professor of Systems and Operations Research (Emeritus) in the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University.
From 194 ...
at Carnegie Mellon University and was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Miller Research Institute at the University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, associated with George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.
Dantzig is known for his ...
's Center of Operations Research.[Fred W. Glover personal faculty page]
at the University of Colorado
Work
Fred Glover is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, associated with the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the Applied Mathematics Department and the Leeds School of Business
The Leeds School of Business is a college of the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States, established 1906. As of April 2022, the school reports an enrollment of over 3800 undergraduate students. In 2001, the college was named for the ...
. He also serves as the Chief Technology Officer in charge of algorithm design and strategic planning initiatives for OptTek Systems, Inc., a provider of optimization software to the simulation industry. He has authored or co-authored more than 450 published articles and eight books in the fields of mathematical optimization, computer science and artificial intelligence.
Research
Glover's principal areas of research including: applications of computers to the fields of optimization, applied artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...
, systems design, multicriteria analysis, decision support
A decision support system (DSS) is an Information systems, information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and hig ...
, logistics
Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...
, natural resources planning, large scale allocation models, transportation, financial analysis and industrial planning.[
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References
External links
OptTek website
Biography of Fred Glover
from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Fred Glover's home page with vita and publications
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American computer scientists
University of Missouri alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
1937 births
American chief technology officers
John von Neumann Theory Prize winners
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences