Search Methodologies Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burke, Edmund K. (Editor), Kendall, Graham (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Optimization.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Computing Methodologies.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

Search Methodologies is a tutorial survey of the methodologies that are at the confluence of several fields: Computer Science, Mathematics and Operations Research. It is a carefully structured and integrated treatment of the major technologies in optimization and search methodology. The book is made...

Table of Contents:

• Classical Techniques
• Integer Programming
• Genetic Algorithms
• Genetic Programming
• Tabu Search
• Simulated Annealing
• Variable Neighborhood Search
• Constraint Programming
• Multi-Objective Optimization
• Complexity Theory and the No Free Lunch Theorem
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Immune Systems
• Swarm Intelligence
• Fuzzy Reasoning
• Rough Set Based Decision Support
• Hyper-Heuristics
• Approximation Algorithms
• Fitness Landscapes.