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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Invited Paper
• Metaheuristic Agent Processes (MAPS)
• Tutorial Paper
• GRASP with Path-Relinking: Recent Advances and Applications
• Papers on Problem Solving
• A Tabu Search Heuristic for a University Timetabling Problem
• An Investigation of Automated Planograms Using a Simulated Annealing Based Hyper-Heuristic
• Validation and Optimization of an Elevator Simulation Model with Modern Search Heuristics
• Multi-Objective Hyper-Heuristic Approaches for Space Allocation and Timetabling
• Theory and Practice of the Minimum Shift Design Problem
• Local Search Algorithms for the Two-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem with a Given Number of Different Patterns
• A Generic Object-Oriented Tabu Search Framework
• Bi-Objective Sequencing of Cutting Patterns
• Metaheuristics Approach for Rule Acquisition in Flexible Shop Scheduling Problems
• Predicting Colorectal Cancer Recurrence: A Hybrid Neural Networks-Based Approach
• A Constructive Genetic Approach to Point-Feature Cartographic Label Placement
• Papers on Methodologies
• Parallel Strategies for Grasp with Path-Relinking
• Speeding Up Local Search Neighborhood Evaluation for A Multi-Dimensional Knapsack Problem
• Computationally Difficult Instances for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem
• Consistent Neighbourhood in a Tabu Search
• Constraint Oriented Neighbourhoods — A New Search Strategy in Metaheuristics.