- Part I: Advances For New Model And Solution Approaches.- A Scatter Search Tutorial for Graph-Based Permutation Problems.- A Multistart Scatter Search Heuristic for Smooth NLP and MINLP Problems.- Scatter Search Methods for the Covering Tour Problem.- Solution for the Sonet Ring Assignment Problem with Capacity Constraints.- Part II: Advances for Solving Classical Problems.- A Very Fast Tabu Search Algorithm for Job Shop Problem.- Tabu Search Heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem.- Some New Ideas in TS for Job Shop Scheduling.- A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem.- Adaptive Memory Search Guidance for Satisfiability Problems.- Part III: Experimental Evaluation.- Lessons from Applying and Experimenting with Scatter Search.- Tabu Search for Mixed-Integer Programming.- Scatter Search vs. Genetic Algorithms: An experimental evaluation with permutation problems.- Part IV: Review of Recent Developments.- Parallel Computation, Co-operation, Tabu Search.- Using Group Theory to Construct and Characterize Metaheuristic Search Neighborhoods.- Logistics Management: An Opportunity for Metaheuristics.- Part V: New Procedural Designs.- On the Integration of Metaheuristic Strategies in Constraint Programming.- General Purpose Metrics for Solution Variety.- Controlled Pool Maintenance in Combinatorial Optimization.- Adaptive Memory Projection Methods for Integer Programming.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Tabu Search (TS) and, more recently, Scatter Search (SS) have proved highly effective in solving a wide range of optimization problems, and have had a variety of applications in industry, science, and government. The goal of "Metaheuristic Optimization via Memory and Evolution: Tabu Search and Scatter Search" is to report original research on algorithms and applications of tabu search, scatter search or both, as well as variations and extensions having "adaptive memory programming" as a primary focus. Individual chapters identify useful new implementations or new ways to integrate and apply the principles of TS and SS, or that prove new theoretical results, or describe the successful application of these methods to real world problems.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)