Experienced researchers describe the latest types of heuristic procedures. Artificial networks, simulated annealing, Tabu search, Lagrangean relaxation, genetic

Experienced researchers describe the latest types of heuristic procedures. Artificial networks, simulated annealing, Tabu search, Lagrangean relaxation, genetic

Over the last two decades, many ingenious techniques for solving large combinatorial problems have been developed. In this book, some of the more recent familie

This book explores how developing solutions with heuristic tools offers two major advantages: shortened development time and more robust systems. It begins with

1. Introduction -- 2. Computational complexity -- 3. Local improvement on discrete structures -- 4. Simulated annealing -- 5. Tabu search -- 6. Genetic algorith