uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP). It introduces specific optimization algorithms such as construction heuristics … properties and lower bounds. Computational studies demonstrate the performance of the heuristics, lower bounds, subgradients … obtained from heuristics and the quality of dual information. This unique book includes implementation details and an …

valuable contribution to the important field of computational network theory …

Optimization Theory and Algorithms -- On the Asymptotic Behavior of a System of Steepest Descent Equations Coupled by a … Methods for Optimal Control with Binary Control Functions Applied to a Lotka-Volterra Type Fishing Problem -- Game Theory … -- Solving Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints with Nonlinear Solvers -- A Filter Algorithm and Other NLP …

Algorithm for Large-scale Set Covering Problems -- Log-Truck Scheduling with a Tabu Search Strategy -- Nature-inspired methods …-Relinking for the Tsp -- Using a Randomised Iterative Improvement Algorithm with Composite Neighbourhood Structures for the … Satisfiability Problem -- The ACO/F-Race Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty -- Adaptive Control of Genetic …

Variable Toll Pricing in Road Networks with Direct Search Meta-Heuristics -- Scatter Search for locating a treatment plant and … -- Metaheuristics for the Index Tracking Problem -- A Hybrid Algorithm for Vehicle Routing of Less-Than-Truckload Carriers. …

The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to … solution methods used in the different chapters of the book also spread from well-established heuristics and metaheuristics …