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Metaheuristic Search Concepts - A Tutorial with Applications to Production and Logistics (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Metaheuristic Search Concepts - A Tutorial with Applications to Production and Logistics (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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In many decision problems, e.g. from the area of production and
logistics manage ment, the evaluation of alternatives and the
determination of an optimal or at least suboptimal solution is an
important but dif?cult task. For most such problems no ef?cient
algorithm is known and classical approaches of Operations Research
like Mixed Integer Linear Programming or Dynamic Pro gramming are
often of limited use due to excessive computation time. Therefore,
dedicated heuristic solution approaches have been developed which
aim at providing good solutions in reasonable time for a given
problem. However, such methods have two major drawbacks: First,
they are tailored to a speci?c prob lem and their adaption to other
problems is dif?cult and in many cases even impos sible. Second,
they are typically designed to "build" one single solution in the
most effective way, whereas most decision problems have a vast
number of feasible solu tions. Hence usually the chances are high
that there exist better ones. To overcome these limitations,
problem independent search strategies, in particular metaheuris
tics, have been proposed. This book provides an elementary step by
step introduction to metaheuristics focusing on the search concepts
they are based on. The ?rst part demonstrates un derlying concepts
of search strategies using a simple example optimization problem.
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