Lin, Shih-Wei; Ying, Kuo-Ching; Lu, Chung-Cheng; Gupta, … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 130 (2011) 2, pp. 246-254
Meta-heuristics that attempt to obtain (near) global optimal solutions of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems generally require diversification to escape from local optimality. One way to achieve diversification is to utilize the multi-start hill climbing strategy. By combining the...