An Introduction to Metaheuristics for Optimization

• Main Authors: Chopard, Bastien (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tomassini, Marco (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Natural Computing Series,
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical optimization.; Computational intelligence.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers.; Artificial Intelligence.; Optimization.; Computational Intelligence.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Theory of Computation.

The authors stress the relative simplicity, efficiency, flexibility of use, and suitability of various approaches used to solve difficult optimization problems. The authors are experienced, interdisciplinary lecturers and researchers and in their explanations they demonstrate many shared foundationa...

Table of Contents:

• Problems, Algorithms, Computational Complexity
• Search Space
• Tabu Search
• Simulated Annealing
• Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
• Non-PSO Optimization
• Firefly Algorithm, Cuckoo Algorithm, Lévy Flights
• Evolutionary Algorithms: Foundations
• Evolutionary Algorithms: Advanced
• Phase Transition in Optimization Problems
• Performance and Limitations of Metaheuristics
• Statistical Analysis of Research Spaces.