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Author : Debasis Mitra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Convergence and Finite-time Behavior of Simulated Annealing written by Debasis Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred W. Glover
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306480565
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Metaheuristics written by Fred W. Glover and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides both the research and practitioner communities with a comprehensive coverage of the metaheuristic methodologies that have proven to be successful in a wide variety of real-world problem settings. Moreover, it is these metaheuristic strategies that hold particular promise for success in the future. The various chapters serve as stand alone presentations giving both the necessary background underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation.
Author : Teofilo F. Gonzalez
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420010743
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics written by Teofilo F. Gonzalez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical applications. It is the first book to comprehensively study both approximation algorithms and metaheuristics. Starting with basic approaches, the handbook presents the methodologies to design and analyze efficient approximation algorithms for a large class of problems, and to establish inapproximability results for another class of problems. It also discusses local search, neural networks, and metaheuristics, as well as multiobjective problems, sensitivity analysis, and stability. After laying this foundation, the book applies the methodologies to classical problems in combinatorial optimization, computational geometry, and graph problems. In addition, it explores large-scale and emerging applications in networks, bioinformatics, VLSI, game theory, and data analysis. Undoubtedly sparking further developments in the field, this handbook provides the essential techniques to apply approximation algorithms and metaheuristics to a wide range of problems in computer science, operations research, computer engineering, and economics. Armed with this information, researchers can design and analyze efficient algorithms to generate near-optimal solutions for a wide range of computational intractable problems.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309047765
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Probability and Algorithms written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the hardest computational problems have been successfully attacked through the use of probabilistic algorithms, which have an element of randomness to them. Concepts from the field of probability are also increasingly useful in analyzing the performance of algorithms, broadening our understanding beyond that provided by the worst-case or average-case analyses. This book surveys both of these emerging areas on the interface of the mathematical sciences and computer science. It is designed to attract new researchers to this area and provide them with enough background to begin explorations of their own.
Author : Marcos Sales Guerra Tsuzuki
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535107100
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Simulated Annealing written by Marcos Sales Guerra Tsuzuki and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simulated Annealing is a probabilistic meta-heuristic that is based on statistical mechanics: while at high temperatures molecules in a liquid move freely, the slow reduction of temperature decreases the thermal mobility of the molecules. The final state forms a pure crystal which also corresponds to a state of minimum energy. We encourage readers to explore SA in their work, mainly because it is simple and because it can yield very good results.
Author : Wil Michiels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540358544
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Theoretical Aspects of Local Search written by Wil Michiels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local search has been applied successfully to a diverse collection of optimization problems. However, results are scattered throughout the literature. This is the first book that presents a large collection of theoretical results in a consistent manner. It provides the reader with a coherent overview of the achievements obtained so far, and serves as a source of inspiration for the development of novel results in the challenging field of local search.
Author : Johannes Schneider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540345604
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Optimization written by Johannes Schneider and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses stochastic optimization procedures in a broad manner. The first part offers an overview of relevant optimization philosophies; the second deals with benchmark problems in depth, by applying a selection of optimization procedures. Written primarily with scientists and students from the physical and engineering sciences in mind, this book addresses a larger community of all who wish to learn about stochastic optimization techniques and how to use them.
Author : Carl Sechen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461316979
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing written by Carl Sechen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From my B.E.E degree at the University of Minnesota and right through my S.M. degree at M.I.T., I had specialized in solid state devices and microelectronics. I made the decision to switch to computer-aided design (CAD) in 1981, only a year or so prior to the introduction of the simulated annealing algorithm by Scott Kirkpatrick, Dan Gelatt, and Mario Vecchi of the IBM Thomas 1. Watson Research Center. Because Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, my UC Berkeley advisor, had been a consultant at IBM, I re ceived a copy of the original IBM internal report on simulated annealing approximately the day of its release. Given my background in statistical mechanics and solid state physics, I was immediately impressed by this new combinatorial optimization technique. As Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli had suggested I work in the areas of placement and routing, it was in these realms that I sought to explore this new algorithm. My flJ'St implementation of simulated annealing was for an island-style gate array placement problem. This work is presented in the Appendix of this book. I was quite struck by the effect of a nonzero temperature on what otherwise appears to be a random in terchange algorithm.
Author : Tatiana Tatarenko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319654799
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Game-Theoretic Learning and Distributed Optimization in Memoryless Multi-Agent Systems written by Tatiana Tatarenko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new efficient methods for optimization in realistic large-scale, multi-agent systems. These methods do not require the agents to have the full information about the system, but instead allow them to make their local decisions based only on the local information, possibly obtained during communication with their local neighbors. The book, primarily aimed at researchers in optimization and control, considers three different information settings in multi-agent systems: oracle-based, communication-based, and payoff-based. For each of these information types, an efficient optimization algorithm is developed, which leads the system to an optimal state. The optimization problems are set without such restrictive assumptions as convexity of the objective functions, complicated communication topologies, closed-form expressions for costs and utilities, and finiteness of the system’s state space.
Author : Éric Walter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331907671X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Numerical Methods and Optimization written by Éric Walter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial training in pure and applied sciences tends to present problem-solving as the process of elaborating explicit closed-form solutions from basic principles, and then using these solutions in numerical applications. This approach is only applicable to very limited classes of problems that are simple enough for such closed-form solutions to exist. Unfortunately, most real-life problems are too complex to be amenable to this type of treatment. Numerical Methods – a Consumer Guide presents methods for dealing with them. Shifting the paradigm from formal calculus to numerical computation, the text makes it possible for the reader to · discover how to escape the dictatorship of those particular cases that are simple enough to receive a closed-form solution, and thus gain the ability to solve complex, real-life problems; · understand the principles behind recognized algorithms used in state-of-the-art numerical software; · learn the advantages and limitations of these algorithms, to facilitate the choice of which pre-existing bricks to assemble for solving a given problem; and · acquire methods that allow a critical assessment of numerical results. Numerical Methods – a Consumer Guide will be of interest to engineers and researchers who solve problems numerically with computers or supervise people doing so, and to students of both engineering and applied mathematics.
Author : Antonio Possolo
Publisher : IMS
ISBN 13 : 9780940600270
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Spatial Statistics and Imaging written by Antonio Possolo and published by IMS. This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Barbu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811329710
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Monte Carlo Methods written by Adrian Barbu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science. It provides an overview of Monte Carlo methods, including Sequential Monte Carlo, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Metropolis-Hastings, Gibbs Sampler, Cluster Sampling, Data Driven MCMC, Stochastic Gradient descent, Langevin Monte Carlo, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, and energy landscape mapping. Due to its comprehensive nature, the book is suitable for developing and teaching graduate courses on Monte Carlo methods. To facilitate learning, each chapter includes several representative application examples from various fields. The book pursues two main goals: (1) It introduces researchers to applying Monte Carlo methods to broader problems in areas such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, etc.; and (2) it makes it easier for scientists and engineers working in these areas to employ Monte Carlo methods to enhance their research.
Author : Eugenio Martinez-Falero
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466569247
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management written by Eugenio Martinez-Falero and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest management has evolved from a mercantilist view to a multi-functional one that integrates economic, social, and ecological aspects. However, the issue of sustainability is not yet resolved. Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management brings together global research in three areas of application: inventory of the forest variables that determine the main environmental indices, description and design of new environmental indices, and the application of sustainability indices for regional implementations. The book outlines a public participatory process to assess sustainability in forest management. It explores a new approach that links human and natural systems, reconsiders our interdependence with the diversity of life, and recognizes our role in a unique and complex system. The book also identifies quantitative indices that provide a vast amount of information on soil, landscape, and ecological functioning. It highlights the importance of these indices for public information programs on participatory processes and provides an operating procedure to identify the degree of convergence in the utility of multiple evaluators. The last chapter describes a downloadable computer application that integrates the techniques explained in the book. Users accessing the application are offered a map representing their preferred forest management plan in the study zone. They are also given a map with the results of their corresponding community of evaluators, including the numerical and qualitative data for both. The system stores a record of the visit, including the visitor's profile and responses, to progress towards the joint forest management plan. The quantitative techniques highlighted in this book create the basis for the development of scientific methodologies of participatory sustainable forest management. It details the methodology for the design of a forest management plan that best suits a specific preference system.
Author : Edmund K. Burke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461469406
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Search Methodologies written by Edmund K. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques was originally put together to offer a basic introduction to the various search and optimization techniques that students might need to use during their research, and this new edition continues this tradition. Search Methodologies has been expanded and brought completely up to date, including new chapters covering scatter search, GRASP, and very large neighborhood search. The chapter authors are drawn from across Computer Science and Operations Research and include some of the world’s leading authorities in their field. The book provides useful guidelines for implementing the methods and frameworks described and offers valuable tutorials to students and researchers in the field. “As I embarked on the pleasant journey of reading through the chapters of this book, I became convinced that this is one of the best sources of introductory material on the search methodologies topic to be found. The book’s subtitle, “Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques”, aptly describes its aim, and the editors and contributors to this volume have achieved this aim with remarkable success. The chapters in this book are exemplary in giving useful guidelines for implementing the methods and frameworks described.” Fred Glover, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, USA “[The book] aims to present a series of well written tutorials by the leading experts in their fields. Moreover, it does this by covering practically the whole possible range of topics in the discipline. It enables students and practitioners to study and appreciate the beauty and the power of some of the computational search techniques that are able to effectively navigate through search spaces that are sometimes inconceivably large. I am convinced that this second edition will build on the success of the first edition and that it will prove to be just as popular.” Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Author : Mrinal K. Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619519
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Global Optimization Methods in Geophysical Inversion written by Mrinal K. Sen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an up-to-date overview of the most popular global optimization methods used in interpreting geophysical observations, this new edition includes a detailed description of the theoretical development underlying each method and a thorough explanation of the design, implementation and limitations of algorithms. New and expanded chapters provide details of recently developed methods, such as the neighborhood algorithm, particle swarm optimization, hybrid Monte Carlo and multi-chain MCMC methods. Other chapters include new examples of applications, from uncertainty in climate modeling to whole Earth studies. Several different examples of geophysical inversion, including joint inversion of disparate geophysical datasets, are provided to help readers design algorithms for their own applications. This is an authoritative and valuable text for researchers and graduate students in geophysics, inverse theory and exploration geoscience, and an important resource for professionals working in engineering and petroleum exploration.
Author : M.K. Sen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 008053256X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Global Optimization Methods in Geophysical Inversion written by M.K. Sen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-07-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major goals of geophysical inversion is to find earth models that explain the geophysical observations. Thus the branch of mathematics known as optimization has found significant use in many geophysical applications. Both local and global optimization methods are used in the estimation of material properties from geophysical data. As the title of the book suggests, the aim of this book is to describe the application of several recently developed global optimization methods to geophysical problems. • The well known linear and gradient based optimization methods have been summarized in order to explain their advantages and limitations • The theory of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms have been described in sufficient detail for the readers to understand the underlying fundamental principles upon which these algorithms are based • The algorithms have been described using simple flow charts (the algorithms are general and can be applied to a wide variety of problems Students, researchers and practitioners will be able to design practical algorithms to solve their specific geophysical inversion problems. The book is virtually self-contained so that there are no prerequisites, except for a fundamental mathematical background that includes a basic understanding of linear algebra and calculus.
Author : Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401134367
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Theory of Global Random Search written by Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One service mathematics has rendered the 'Et moi ... - si j'avait su comment en revenir. je n'y serais point aIle.' human mee. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non The series is divergent; therefore we may be sense'. Eric T. Bell able to do something with it. O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non linearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics .. .'; 'One service logic has rendered com puter science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'etre of this series.
