This book highlights state-of-the-art developments in metaheuristics research. It examines all aspects of metaheuristic … and modeling techniques based on metaheuristics. The chapters in this section cover topics from multi-objective problems …-impact applications of metaheuristics. The chapters offer innovative applications of metaheuristics that have a potential of widening …

This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business … business analytics can be modelled and how metaheuristics can be used to find high-quality solutions. Readers will be … introduced to decision-making problems for which metaheuristics offer the most effective solution technique. The book not only …

Parallel Cooperative Metaheuristics -- Algorithm Tuning, Algorithm Design and Software Tools -- Using Experimental Design to …The aim of METAHEURISTICS: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization is to provide several different kinds of … information: a delineation of general metaheuristics methods, a number of state-of-the-art articles from a variety of well …

A Bicriteria Traveling Salesman Problem with Sequence Priorities -- Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning -- Solving … 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. …

Preliminaries -- The Knapsack Problem and Straightforward Optimization Methods -- Search Heuristics -- Metaheuristics … -- Metaheuristics in General -- Metaheuristics Based on Solution Construction -- Metaheuristics Based on Solution Modification … -- Metaheuristics Based on Solution Recombination -- Summarizing Remarks on Metaheuristics -- Applications -- Metaheuristics in Machine …