ARACHNE: Weaving the Telephone Network at NYNEX

Elissa Gilbert, Rangnath Salgame, Afshin Goodarzi, Yuling Lin, Sanjeev Sardana, and Jim Euchner
Arachne is a decision-support system developed by NYNEX to automate its interoffice  facilities planning. By integrating heuristic rules and optimization techniques in an innovative manner, Arachne has fundamentally changed the nature of network planning at NYNEX
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