Adaptive and Multilevel Metaheuristics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cotta, Carlos (Editor), Sevaux, Marc (Editor), Sörensen, Kenneth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 136
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

One of the keystones in practical metaheuristic problem-solving is the fact that tuning the optimization technique to the problem under consideration is crucial for achieving top performance. This tuning/customization is usually in the hands of the algorithm designer, and despite some methodological...

Table of Contents:

• Reviews of the Field
• Hyperheuristics: Recent Developments
• Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation
• New Techniques and Applications
• An Efficient Hyperheuristic for Strip-Packing Problems
• Probability-Driven Simulated Annealing for Optimizing Digital FIR Filters
• RASH: A Self-adaptive Random Search Method
• Market Based Allocation of Transportation Orders to Vehicles in Adaptive Multi-objective Vehicle Routing
• A Simple Evolutionary Algorithm with Self-adaptation for Multi-objective Nurse Scheduling
• Individual Evolution as an Adaptive Strategy for Photogrammetric Network Design
• Adaptive Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
• Initialization and Displacement of the Particles in TRIBES, a Parameter-Free Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
• Evolution of Descent Directions
• “Multiple Neighbourhood” Search in Commercial VRP Packages: Evolving Towards Self-Adaptive Methods
• Automated Parameterisation of a Metaheuristic for the Orienteering Problem.