SAS/OR User’s Guide: Local Search Optimization provides a complete reference for the local search procedures in SAS/OR software. This book serves as the primary documentation for the OPTLSO procedure, which uses parallel hybrid local and global search methods to solve optimization problems, and the GA procedure, which uses genetic algorithms to solve optimization problems.

This chapter describes the organization of this book and the conventions that are used in the text and example code. To gain full benefit from using this book, you should familiarize yourself with the information presented in this section and refer to it when needed. The section Additional Documentation for SAS/OR Software refers to other documents that contain related information.