Theory and Principled Methods for the Design of Metaheuristics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Borenstein, Yossi (Editor), Moraglio, Alberto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Natural Computing Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical optimization.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Optimization.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Metaheuristics, and evolutionary algorithms in particular, are known to provide efficient, adaptable solutions for many real-world problems, but the often informal way in which they are defined and applied has led to misconceptions, and even successful applications are sometimes the outcome of trial...