Overview
- Presents the latest research in metaheuristics methods and applications
- Contributors are leading names in the field
- Takes readers inside the methodology of metaheuristics, then explains applications in classical problems and real-world situations??
Part of the book series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series (ORCS, volume 53)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
Metaheuristics have been a very active research topic for more than two decades. During this time many new metaheuristic strategies have been devised, they have been experimentally tested and improved on challenging benchmark problems, and they have proven to be important tools for tackling optimization tasks in a large number of practical applications. In other words, metaheuristics are nowadays established as one of the main search paradigms for tackling computationally hard problems. Still, there are a large number of research challenges in the area of metaheuristics. These challenges range from more fundamental questions on theoretical properties and performance guarantees, empirical algorithm analysis, the effective configuration of metaheuristic algorithms, approaches to combine metaheuristics with other algorithmic techniques, towards extending the available techniques to tackle ever more challenging problems.
This edited volume grew out of the contributions presented at the ninth Metaheuristics International Conference that was held in Udine, Italy, 25-28 July 2011. The conference comprised 117 presentations of peer-reviewed contributions and 3 invited talks, and it has been attended by 169 delegates. The chapters that are collected in this book exemplify contributions to several of the research directions outlined above.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Metaheuristics
Editors: Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Schaerf, Thomas Stützle
Series Title: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6322-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6321-4Published: 28 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9187-4Published: 06 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6322-1Published: 01 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1387-666X
Series E-ISSN: 2698-5489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 183
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science