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
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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