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An_Explanation_of_Ordinal_Optimization_-_Soft_Opti.pdf

In my recent article http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=1565&do=blog&id=1240521  I mentioned my most practically useful contribution to complex stochastic optimization problems being the technique of “Ordinal Optimization”. While there is a textbook already existing on the subject, reader might wish to consult a short tutorial article on the subject which I wrote 21 years ago and still current for quick but fairly thorough introduction. It is attached here for use.

A successful real world application of OO can also be found at

https://www.academia.edu/26011546/Ordinal_Optimization_for_Dynamic_Network_Reconfiguration?email_work_card=view-paper