Fuzzy Sets Based Heuristics for Optimization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Verdegay, José-Luis (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 126
• Subjects: Mathematical optimization.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Application software.; Optimization.; Mathematical and Computational Engineering.; Computer Applications.; Applications of Mathematics.

The aim of this volume is to show how Fuzzy Sets and Systems can help to provide robust and adaptive heuristic optimization algorithms in a variety of situations. The book presents the state of the art gives a broad overview on the real practical applications that Fuzzy Sets based heuristic algorith...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Soft Computing and Metaheuristics
• Fuzzy Adaptive Neighborhood Search: Examples of Application
• Branch-and-bound algorithms using fuzzy heuristics for solving large-scale flow shop scheduling problems
• A Fuzzy Adaptive Partition Algorithm (FAPA) for Global Optimization
• Fuzzy Memes in Multimeme Algorithms: a Fuzzy-Evolutionary Hybrid
• Vehicle Routing Problem With Uncertain Demand at Nodes: The Bee System and Fuzzy Logic Approach
• Fuzzy Constructive Heuristics
• 2. Heuristics and Mathematical Programming
• Heuristics for Optimization: two approaches for problem resolution
• Optimization with linguistic variables
• Interactive Algorithms Using Fuzzy Concepts for Solving Mathematical Models of Real Life Optimization Problems
• Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis: A Credibility Approach
• Fuzzy Optimization using Simulated Annealing: An Example Set
• 3. Practical Heuristic Algorithms
• Multi-stage Supply Chain Network by Hybrid Genetic Algorithms
• Fuzzy evolutionary approach for multiobjective combinatorial optimization: application to scheduling problems
• Fuzzy Sets based Heuristics for Optimization: Multi-objective Evolutionary Fuzzy Modeling
• An Interactive Fuzzy Satisficing Method for Multiobjective Operation Planning in District Heating and Cooling Plants through Genetic Algorithms for Nonlinear 0-1 Programming
• Adaptive Hybrid Genetic Algorithm with Fuzzy Logic Controller
• 4. Applications to Real World Problems
• Finding Satisfactory Near-Optimal Solutions in Location Problems
• Route Choice Making Under Uncertainty: a Fuzzy Logic Based Approach
• A New Technique to Electrical Distribution System Load Flow Based on Fuzzy Sets
• A Fuzzy Adaptive Partitioning Algorithm (FAPA) for Global Optimization: Implementation in Environmental Site Characterization
• Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Fuzzy Demand
• An Adaptive, Intelligent Control System for Slag Foaming.