This paper focuses on solving the knapsack problem with forfeits (KPF). This variation of the knapsack problem includes soft conflicts or forfeits, where forfeit pairs consist of two items and an associated penalty. The proposed method combines the fixed set search (FSS) metaheuristic's learning...

Initialization of metaheuristics is a crucial topic that lacks a comprehensive and systematic review of the state of the art. Providing such a review requires in‐depth study and knowledge of the advances and challenges in the broader field of metaheuristics, especially with regard to...

Social media enable companies to assess consumers' opinions, complaints and needs. The systematic and data-driven analysis of social media to generate business value is summarized under the term Social Media Analytics which includes statistical, network-based and language-based approaches. We...