Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

Author
Patrick Siarry, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Computer Science

The book gathers contributions related to the following topics: theoretical developments in metaheuristics; adaptation of discrete metaheuristics to continuous optimization; performance comparisons of metaheuristics; cooperative methods combining different approaches; parallel and distributed metaheuristics for multiobjective optimization; software implementations; and real-world applications.


Keywords: Computer science / Hidden Markov Model / Algorithms / Data mining / Evolutionary algorithm / Genetic algorithms / Global optimization / Heuristics / Learning / Linear optimization / Metaheuristic / Multi-objective optimization / Nonlinear optimization / Operations research / Optimization /scheduling / Optimization / Artificial intelligence / Operations Research, Management Science / Engineering Design / Theory of Computation