the “Heuristic Search Hypothesis”. Finally, we briefly illustrate this theory with some examples of modeling business …

heuristic solution procedures for binary optimization problems. Solutions represented by vectors of binary variables are encoded … the PLQT managing the solutions is negligible as compared to that taken by a heuristic procedure for any reasonably hard … to solve binary optimization problems, as shown in a tabu search heuristic procedure for the capacitated facility …

heuristic capable to deal efficiently with a variety of risk functions and practical constraints on the positions in the … portfolio. The efficiency and robustness of the heuristic is illustrated by solving a collection of real world portfolio …