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Author : Alex M. Andrew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Continuous Heuristics written by Alex M. Andrew and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.
Author : Nelishia Pillay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331996514X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications written by Nelishia Pillay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the field of hyper-heuristics presents the required foundations and tools and illustrates some of their applications. The authors organized the 13 chapters into three parts. The first, hyper-heuristic fundamentals and theory, provides an overview of selection constructive, selection perturbative, generation constructive and generation perturbative hyper-heuristics, and then a formal definition of hyper-heuristics. The chapters in the second part of the book examine applications of hyper-heuristics in vehicle routing, nurse rostering, packing and examination timetabling. The third part of the book presents advanced topics and then a summary of the field and future research directions. Finally the appendices offer details of the HyFlex framework and the EvoHyp toolkit, and then the definition, problem model and constraints for the most tested combinatorial optimization problems. The book will be of value to graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.
Author : S. French
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401711852
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics written by S. French and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London. The 'Chelsea tradition' in philosophy of science takes the content of science seriously, as exemplified by the papers presented here. The unifying theme of this work is that of 'Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics', after the title of a classic and seminal paper by Heinz Post, published in 1971, which is reproduced in this volume with the kind permission of the editors and publishers of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Described by Paul Feyerabend in Against Method as "brilliant" and " . . . a partial antidote against the view which I try to defend" (1975, p. 61, fn. 17), this paper, peppered with illustrative examples from the history of science, brings to the fore some of Heinz Post's central concerns: the heuristic criteria used by scientists in constructing their theories, the intertheoretic relationships which these criteria reflect and, in particular, the nature of the correspondence that holds between a theory and its predecessors (and its suc cessors). The appearance of this volume more than twenty years later is an indica tion of the fruitfulness of Post's contribution: philosophers of science continue to explore the issues raised in his 1971 paper.
Author : Franz Rothlauf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540729623
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Design of Modern Heuristics written by Franz Rothlauf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most textbooks on modern heuristics provide the reader with detailed descriptions of the functionality of single examples like genetic algorithms, genetic programming, tabu search, simulated annealing, and others, but fail to teach the underlying concepts behind these different approaches. The author takes a different approach in this textbook by focusing on the users' needs and answering three fundamental questions: First, he tells us which problems modern heuristics are expected to perform well on, and which should be left to traditional optimization methods. Second, he teaches us to systematically design the "right" modern heuristic for a particular problem by providing a coherent view on design elements and working principles. Third, he shows how we can make use of problem-specific knowledge for the design of efficient and effective modern heuristics that solve not only small toy problems but also perform well on large real-world problems. This book is written in an easy-to-read style and it is aimed at students and practitioners in computer science, operations research and information systems who want to understand modern heuristics and are interested in a guide to their systematic design and use. This book is written in an easy-to-read style and it is aimed at students and practitioners in computer science, operations research and information systems who want to understand modern heuristics and are interested in a guide to their systematic design and use. This book is written in an easy-to-read style and it is aimed at students and practitioners in computer science, operations research and information systems who want to understand modern heuristics and are interested in a guide to their systematic design and use.
Author : ABC Research Group
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195388437
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Simple Heuristics in a Social World written by ABC Research Group and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others.
Author : A. M. Andrew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745805184
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Continuous Heuristics written by A. M. Andrew and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michel Gendreau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319910868
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Metaheuristics written by Michel Gendreau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The nature of metaheuristics invites an analyst to modify basic methods in response to problem characteristics, past experiences, and personal preferences, and the chapters in this handbook are designed to facilitate this process as well. This new edition has been fully revised and features new chapters on swarm intelligence and automated design of metaheuristics from flexible algorithm frameworks. The authors who have contributed to this volume represent leading figures from the metaheuristic community and are responsible for pioneering contributions to the fields they write about. Their collective work has significantly enriched the field of optimization in general and combinatorial optimization in particular.Metaheuristics are solution methods that orchestrate an interaction between local improvement procedures and higher level strategies to create a process capable of escaping from local optima and performing a robust search of a solution space. In addition, many new and exciting developments and extensions have been observed in the last few years. Hybrids of metaheuristics with other optimization techniques, like branch-and-bound, mathematical programming or constraint programming are also increasingly popular. On the front of applications, metaheuristics are now used to find high-quality solutions to an ever-growing number of complex, ill-defined real-world problems, in particular combinatorial ones. This handbook should continue to be a great reference for researchers, graduate students, as well as practitioners interested in metaheuristics.
Author : Javier Del Ser Lorente
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535133837
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Heuristics and Hyper-Heuristics written by Javier Del Ser Lorente and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years, the society is witnessing ever-growing levels of complexity in the optimization paradigms lying at the core of different applications and processes. This augmented complexity has motivated the adoption of heuristic methods as a means to balance the Pareto trade-off between computational efficiency and the quality of the produced solutions to the problem at hand. The momentum gained by heuristics in practical applications spans further towards hyper-heuristics, which allow constructing ensembles of simple heuristics to handle efficiently several problems of a single class. In this context, this short book compiles selected applications of heuristics and hyper-heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems, including scheduling and other assorted application scenarios.
Author : Farouk Yalaoui
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030589307
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Heuristics for Optimization and Learning written by Farouk Yalaoui and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a new contribution aiming to give some last research findings in the field of optimization and computing. This work is in the same field target than our two previous books published: “Recent Developments in Metaheuristics” and “Metaheuristics for Production Systems”, books in Springer Series in Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces. The challenge with this work is to gather the main contribution in three fields, optimization technique for production decision, general development for optimization and computing method and wider spread applications. The number of researches dealing with decision maker tool and optimization method grows very quickly these last years and in a large number of fields. We may be able to read nice and worthy works from research developed in chemical, mechanical, computing, automotive and many other fields.
Author : El-Ghazali Talbi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319951041
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Bioinspired Heuristics for Optimization written by El-Ghazali Talbi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent research on bioinspired heuristics for optimization. Learning- based and black-box optimization exhibit some properties of intrinsic parallelization, and can be used for various optimizations problems. Featuring the most relevant work presented at the 6th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, held at Marrakech (Morocco) from 27th to 31st October 2016, the book presents solutions, methods, algorithms, case studies, and software. It is a valuable resource for research academics and industrial practitioners.
Author : Kaushik Kumar
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351049569
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Optimizing Engineering Problems through Heuristic Techniques written by Kaushik Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will cover heuristic optimization techniques and applications in engineering problems. The book will be divided into three sections that will provide coverage of the techniques, which can be employed by engineers, researchers, and manufacturing industries, to improve their productivity with the sole motive of socio-economic development. This will be the first book in the category of heuristic techniques with relevance to engineering problems and achieving optimal solutions. Features Explains the concept of optimization and the relevance of using heuristic techniques for optimal solutions in engineering problems Illustrates the various heuristics techniques Describes evolutionary heuristic techniques like genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization Contains natural based techniques like ant colony optimization, bee algorithm, firefly optimization, and cuckoo search Offers sample problems and their optimization, using various heuristic techniques
Author : Michael J. Hirsch
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Grasp-based Heuristics for Continuous Global Optimization Problems written by Michael J. Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: In almost all areas of the applied sciences, optimization problems abound. An optimization problem can be defined as optimizing a function of several variables subject to some constraints that limit the feasible region. These problems can be defined over discrete or continuous spaces (or some combination thereof). In global optimization, it is reasonable to assume that multiple local optima exist, different from the global optimum. Solution techniques for global optimization problems attempt to overcome locally optimal solutions in the search for a globally optimal solution. The general global optimization problem is known to be NP-hard. Thus, there has been significant research directed towards finding heuristics to solve global optimization problems. When very little is known about the problem structure, i.e., little or no a priori information, the problem can be called a black-box optimization problem. This research introduces a new heuristic for continuous black-box global optimization problems. This heuristic is named C-GRASP, for Continuous Greedy Random Adaptive Search Procedures. In addition to fully detailing this new heuristic, we apply C-GRASP to standard global optimization test problems, as well as several challenging real-world problems.
Author : Ralph Hertwig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199729247
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Simple Heuristics in a Social World written by Ralph Hertwig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics for myriad resources, including food, mates, and status, and where rivals grant the decision maker little time for deep thought, protracted information search, or complex calculations. Yet, the social world also encompasses domains where social animals such as humans can learn from one another and can forge alliances with one another to boost their chances of success. According to the book's thesis, the undeniable complexity of the social world does not dictate cognitive complexity as many scholars of rationality argue. Rather, it entails circumstances that render optimization impossible or computationally arduous: intractability, the existence of incommensurable considerations, and competing goals. With optimization beyond reach, less can be more. That is, heuristics--simple strategies for making decisions when time is pressing and careful deliberation an unaffordable luxury--become indispensible mental tools. As accurate as or even more accurate than complex methods when used in the appropriate social environments, these heuristics are good descriptive models of how people make many decisions and inferences, but their impressive performance also poses a normative challenge for optimization models. In short, the Homo socialis may prove to be a Homo heuristicus whose intelligence reflects ecological rather than logical rationality.
Author : El-Ghazali Talbi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470496908
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Metaheuristics written by El-Ghazali Talbi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unified view of metaheuristics This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient algorithms to solve complex optimization problems across a diverse range of applications, from networking and bioinformatics to engineering design, routing, and scheduling. It presents the main design questions for all families of metaheuristics and clearly illustrates how to implement the algorithms under a software framework to reuse both the design and code. Throughout the book, the key search components of metaheuristics are considered as a toolbox for: Designing efficient metaheuristics (e.g. local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimization, scatter search, ant colonies, bee colonies, artificial immune systems) for optimization problems Designing efficient metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization problems Designing hybrid, parallel, and distributed metaheuristics Implementing metaheuristics on sequential and parallel machines Using many case studies and treating design and implementation independently, this book gives readers the skills necessary to solve large-scale optimization problems quickly and efficiently. It is a valuable reference for practicing engineers and researchers from diverse areas dealing with optimization or machine learning; and graduate students in computer science, operations research, control, engineering, business and management, and applied mathematics.
Author : Vasant, Pandian M.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466620870
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Meta-Heuristics Optimization Algorithms in Engineering, Business, Economics, and Finance written by Vasant, Pandian M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization techniques have developed into a significant area concerning industrial, economics, business, and financial systems. With the development of engineering and financial systems, modern optimization has played an important role in service-centered operations and as such has attracted more attention to this field. Meta-heuristic hybrid optimization is a newly development mathematical framework based optimization technique. Designed by logicians, engineers, analysts, and many more, this technique aims to study the complexity of algorithms and problems. Meta-Heuristics Optimization Algorithms in Engineering, Business, Economics, and Finance explores the emerging study of meta-heuristics optimization algorithms and methods and their role in innovated real world practical applications. This book is a collection of research on the areas of meta-heuristics optimization algorithms in engineering, business, economics, and finance and aims to be a comprehensive reference for decision makers, managers, engineers, researchers, scientists, financiers, and economists as well as industrialists.
Author : Thomas E. Morton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471578192
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Heuristic Scheduling Systems written by Thomas E. Morton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-09-10 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects exact and heuristic methods of scheduling techniques suitable for creating customized sequencing and scheduling systems for flexible manufacturing, project management, group and cellular manufacturing operations. Summarizes complex computational studies demonstrating how they work in practice. Contains new theories and techniques developed by the author. Includes a software disk to reinforce and practice the methods described.
Author : Mauricio G.C. Resende
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402076534
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Metaheuristics written by Mauricio G.C. Resende and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combinatorial optimization is the process of finding the best, or optimal, so lution for problems with a discrete set of feasible solutions. Applications arise in numerous settings involving operations management and logistics, such as routing, scheduling, packing, inventory and production management, lo cation, logic, and assignment of resources. The economic impact of combi natorial optimization is profound, affecting sectors as diverse as transporta tion (airlines, trucking, rail, and shipping), forestry, manufacturing, logistics, aerospace, energy (electrical power, petroleum, and natural gas), telecommu nications, biotechnology, financial services, and agriculture. While much progress has been made in finding exact (provably optimal) so lutions to some combinatorial optimization problems, using techniques such as dynamic programming, cutting planes, and branch and cut methods, many hard combinatorial problems are still not solved exactly and require good heuristic methods. Moreover, reaching "optimal solutions" is in many cases meaningless, as in practice we are often dealing with models that are rough simplifications of reality. The aim of heuristic methods for combinatorial op timization is to quickly produce good-quality solutions, without necessarily providing any guarantee of solution quality. Metaheuristics are high level procedures that coordinate simple heuristics, such as local search, to find solu tions that are of better quality than those found by the simple heuristics alone: Modem metaheuristics include simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, tabu search, GRASP, scatter search, ant colony optimization, variable neighborhood search, and their hybrids.
