Theoretical Aspects Of Local Search

Author : Wil Michiels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540358544
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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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 : Emile H. L. Aarts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691115221
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization written by Emile H. L. Aarts and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction -- 2. Computational complexity -- 3. Local improvement on discrete structures -- 4. Simulated annealing -- 5. Tabu search -- 6. Genetic algorithms -- 7. Artificial neural networks -- 8. The traveling salesman problem: A case study -- 9. Vehicle routing: Modern heuristics -- 10. Vehicle routing: Handling edge exchanges -- 11. Machine scheduling -- 12. VLSI layout synthesis -- 13. Code design.

Author : Bernhard Korte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540292977
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combinatorial Optimization written by Bernhard Korte and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-written textbook on combinatorial optimization puts special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics. The book contains complete (but concise) proofs, as well as many deep results, some of which have not appeared in any previous books.

Author : Rafael Martí
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319071237
Total Pages : 3000 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Heuristics written by Rafael Martí and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 3000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, loosely applicable information to control problem solving. Algorithms, for example, are a type of heuristic. By contrast, Metaheuristics are methods used to design Heuristics and may coordinate the usage of several Heuristics toward the formulation of a single method. GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures) is an example of a Metaheuristic. To the layman, heuristics may be thought of as ‘rules of thumb’ but despite its imprecision, heuristics is a very rich field that refers to experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery. Any given solution/heuristic is not guaranteed to be optimal but heuristic methodologies are used to speed up the process of finding satisfactory solutions where optimal solutions are impractical. The introduction to this Handbook provides an overview of the history of Heuristics along with main issues regarding the methodologies covered. This is followed by Chapters containing various examples of local searches, search strategies and Metaheuristics, leading to an analyses of Heuristics and search algorithms. The reference concludes with numerous illustrations of the highly applicable nature and implementation of Heuristics in our daily life. Each chapter of this work includes an abstract/introduction with a short description of the methodology. Key words are also necessary as part of top-matter to each chapter to enable maximum search engine optimization. Next, chapters will include discussion of the adaptation of this methodology to solve a difficult optimization problem, and experiments on a set of representative problems.

Author : E. Cela
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475727879
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quadratic Assignment Problem written by E. Cela and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) was introduced in 1957 by Koopmans and Beckmann to model a plant location problem. Since then the QAP has been object of numerous investigations by mathematicians, computers scientists, ope- tions researchers and practitioners. Nowadays the QAP is widely considered as a classical combinatorial optimization problem which is (still) attractive from many points of view. In our opinion there are at last three main reasons which make the QAP a popular problem in combinatorial optimization. First, the number of re- life problems which are mathematically modeled by QAPs has been continuously increasing and the variety of the fields they belong to is astonishing. To recall just a restricted number among the applications of the QAP let us mention placement problems, scheduling, manufacturing, VLSI design, statistical data analysis, and parallel and distributed computing. Secondly, a number of other well known c- binatorial optimization problems can be formulated as QAPs. Typical examples are the traveling salesman problem and a large number of optimization problems in graphs such as the maximum clique problem, the graph partitioning problem and the minimum feedback arc set problem. Finally, from a computational point of view the QAP is a very difficult problem. The QAP is not only NP-hard and - hard to approximate, but it is also practically intractable: it is generally considered as impossible to solve (to optimality) QAP instances of size larger than 20 within reasonable time limits.

Author : Ron Lavi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662448033
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algorithmic Game Theory written by Ron Lavi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2014, held in Haifa, Israel, in October 2014. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They cover various important aspects of algorithmic game theory, such as matching theory, game dynamics, games of coordination, networks and social choice, markets and auctions, price of anarchy, computational aspects of games, mechanism design and auctions.

Author : Alejandro López-Ortiz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642122000
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LATIN 2010: Theoretical Informatics written by Alejandro López-Ortiz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2010, held in Oaxaca, Mexico; in April 2010. The 56 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 4 invited plenary talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers address a variety of topics in theoretical computer science with a certain focus on algorithms, automata theory and formal languages, coding theory and data compression, algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, complexity theory, computational algebra, computational biology, computational geometry, computational number theory, cryptography, theoretical aspects of databases and information retrieval, data structures, networks, logic in computer science, machine learning, mathematical programming, parallel and distributed computing, pattern matching, quantum computing and random structures.

Author : Selim G. Akl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540735542
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Unconventional Computation written by Selim G. Akl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a world beyond Turing, as more and more computer researchers are demonstrating, but where would you find out about the current leading edge in unconventional computation? Here, in this fascinating work that is the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, held in Kingston, Canada, in August 2007. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. All current aspects of unconventional computation are addressed.

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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Author : Camil Demetrescu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642237193
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algorithms -- ESA 2011 written by Camil Demetrescu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in September 2011 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2011. The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 255 initial submissions: 55 out of 209 in track design and analysis and 12 out of 46 in track engineering and applications. The papers are organized in topical sections on approximation algorithms, computational geometry, game theory, graph algorithms, stable matchings and auctions, optimization, online algorithms, exponential-time algorithms, parameterized algorithms, scheduling, data structures, graphs and games, distributed computing and networking, strings and sorting, as well as local search and set systems.