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 : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Computing Methodologies.

The first edition of Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques was originally put together to offer a basic introduction to the various search and optimization techniques that students might need to use during their research, and this new edition co...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Classical Techniques
• Integer Programming
• Genetic Algorithms
• Scatter Search
• Genetic Programming
• Artificial Immune Systems
• Swarm Intelligence
• Tabu Search
• Simulated Annealing
• GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures
• Variable Neighborhood Search
• Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search
• Constraint Programming
• Multi-objective Optimization
• Sharpened and Focused No Free Lunch and Complexity Theory
• Machine Learning
• Fuzzy Reasoning
• Rough-Set-Based Decision Support
• Hyper-heuristics
• Approximations and Randomization
• Fitness Landscapes.