Marshall L. Fisher

摘要

Fisher is credited with a number of important advancements in our profession. His early work was on the design and performance analysis of algorithms, development of Lagrangian relaxation as a versatile optimization tool, and other discrete optimization methods. In 1977, his co-authored paper, "Location of Bank Accounts to Optimize Float: An Analytic Study of Exact and Approximate Algorithms" (by G. Cornuejols, M.L. Fisher and G.L. Nemhauser, Management Science), received the Lanchester Prize. Subsequently, he developed diverse algorithms to solve the vehicle routing problem.