Hybrid Metaheuristics Powerful Tools for Optimization /

• Main Authors: Blum, Christian (Author), Raidl, Günther R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical optimization.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Theory of Computation.; Computational Intelligence.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.

This book explains the most prominent and some promising new, general techniques that combine metaheuristics with other optimization methods. A first introductory chapter reviews the basic principles of local search, prominent metaheuristics, and tree search, dynamic programming, mixed integer linea...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Incomplete Solution Representations and Decoders
• Hybridization Based on Problem Instance Reduction
• Hybridization Based on Large Neighborhood Search
• Making Use of a Parallel, Non-independent, Construction of Solutions Within Metaheuristics
• Hybridization Based on Complete Solution Archives
• Further Hybrids and Conclusions. .