Abstract
The book gives an introduction to metaheuristics for students and practitioners. It requires no prior knowledge of the field, as the basic concepts are developed step by step from the bottom up using the knapsack problem and therefore allowing the user to concentrate on the main ideas of metaheuristics. The concepts are then expanded to concrete algorithms, which are described in detail. Then a systematization of the algorithms is established and compared with existing classification schemes from literature. The last part of the book deals with the application of popular metaheuristics to two optimization problems from the field of production and logistics, namely the Job Shop Scheduling and the Vehicle Routing Problem, based on examples.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Berlin-Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag GmbH |
| Number of pages | 316 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-11342-0 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2010 |
Fields of science
- 101015 Operations research
- 101016 Optimisation
- 102 Computer Sciences
- 502 Economics
- 502017 Logistics
- 502028 Production management
- 502037 Location planning
- 502050 Business informatics