Heuristic Search The Emerging Science of Problem Solving /

• Main Author: Salhi, Saïd (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Management information systems.; Big data.; Computer science.; Algorithms.; Business and Management.; Business Information Systems.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Big Data/Analytics.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Computer Science, general.

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Heuristic search, the applications of which are now widely...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Improvement-Only Heuristics
• Chapter 3: Not-Necessary Improving Heuristics
• Chapter 4: Population-based Heuristics
• Chapter 5: Hybridisation Search
• Chapter 6: Implementation Issues
• Chapter 7 Applications, Conclusion and Research Challenges.