The minimum routing and wavelength assignment (min-RWA) problem is a classic and challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem which aims to reduce the required wavelengths in wavelength-division multiplexing optical networks. In order to tackle this problem, we present a...

This book explores the meta-heuristics approach called tabu search, which is dramatically changing our ability to solve a host of problems that stretch over the realms of resource planning, telecommunications, VLSI design, financial analysis, scheduling, space planning, energy distribution,...