uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP). It introduces specific optimization algorithms such as construction heuristics …, Lagrangean and tabu search metaheuristics. A problem independent hybrid approach links and alternates between two Lagrangean … properties and lower bounds. Computational studies demonstrate the performance of the heuristics, lower bounds, subgradients …

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 …

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 …

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

Multiple production Stages -- Model reformulation & Heuristics …

Metaheuristics have been a very active research topic for more than two decades. During this time many new … other words, metaheuristics are nowadays established as one of the main search paradigms for tackling computationally hard … problems. Still, there are a large number of research challenges in the area of metaheuristics. These challenges range from …

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 …