Metaheuristics: Progress as Real Problem Solvers

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ibaraki, Toshihide (Editor), Nonobe, Koji (Editor), Yagiura, Mutsunori (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, 32
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Optimization.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Computing Methodologies.; Theory of Computation.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.
• Physical Description: XII, 414 p. 106 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387253831
• ISSN: 1387-666X ;

Metaheuristics: Progress as Real Problem Solvers is a peer-reviewed volume of eighteen current, cutting-edge papers by leading researchers in the field. Included are an invited paper by F. Glover and G. Kochenberger, which discusses the concept of Metaheuristic agent processes, and a tutorial paper by M.G.C. Resende and C.C. Ribeiro discussing GRASP with path-relinking. Other papers discuss problem-solving approaches to timetabling, automated planograms, elevators, space allocation, shift design, cutting stock, flexible shop scheduling, colorectal cancer and cartography. A final group of methodology papers clarify various aspects of Metaheuristics from the computational view point.