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Metaheuristic Search Concepts: A Tutorial with Applications to Production and Logistics

By Günther Zäpfel , Roland Braune , Michael Bögl (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
3642113427, 9783642113420
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-11343-7
Google Books ID
C1pAIrZICVwC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5463559 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
316\315
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Production/Logistics; Operations Research/Decision

Description

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.

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