| Article ID: | iaor199850 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 581 |
| End Page Number: | 591 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Karunanithi Nachimuthu, Carpenter Tamra |
| Keywords: | networks, heuristics |
We describe an optimization problem that arises in SONET ring sizing. We compare solutions obtained by the genetic algorithm with both optimal solutions obtained by the CPLEX mixed integer program solver and heuristic solutions generated by the algorithm that is incorporated in the SONET Toolkit – a decision support system for planning SONET networks.