Handbook of Metaheuristics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gendreau, Michel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Potvin, Jean-Yves (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2019.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 272
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Management science.; Computer science-Mathematics.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Math Applications in Computer Science.

The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book's chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The nat...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Simulated Annealing: From Basics to Applications
• Chapter 2. Tabu Search
• Chapter 3. Variable Neighborhood Search
• Chapter 4. Large Neighborhood Search
• Chapter 5. Iterated Local Search: Framework and Applications
• Chapter 6. Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures: Advances and Extensions
• Chapter 7. Intelligent Multi-Start Methods
• Chapter 8. Next Generation Genetic Algorithms: A User's Guide and Tutorial
• Chapter 9. An Accelerated Introduction to Memetic Algorithms
• Chapter 10. Ant Colony Optimization: Overview and Recent Advances
• Chapter 11. Swarm Intelligence
• Chapter 12. Metaheuristic Hybrids
• Chapter 13. Parallel Metaheuristics and Cooperative Search
• Chapter 14. A Classification of Hyper-heuristic Approaches - Revisited
• Chapter 15. Reactive Search Optimization: Learning while Optimizing
• Chapter 16. Stochastic Search in Metaheuristics
• Chapter 17. Automated Design of Metaheuristic Algorithms
• Chapter 18. Computational Comparison of Metaheuristics.