Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization
Patrick Siarry, Zbigniew Michalewicz, "Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization"
Springer; 1 edition (December 3, 2007) | ISBN:3540729593 | 481 pages | PDF | 10,6 Mb
Springer; 1 edition (December 3, 2007) | ISBN:3540729593 | 481 pages | PDF | 10,6 Mb
Many advances have been made recently in metaheuristic methods, from theory to applications. The editors, both leading experts in this field, have assembled a team of researchers to contribute 21 chapters organized into parts on simulated annealing, tabu search, ant colony algorithms, general-purpose studies of evolutionary algorithms, applications of evolutionary algorithms, and various metaheuristics.
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.
This book is suitable for practitioners, researchers and graduate students in disciplines such as optimization, heuristics, operations research, and natural computing.