Design of Modern Heuristics Principles and Application
Most textbooks on modern heuristics provide the reader with detailed descriptions of the functionality of single examples like genetic algorithms, genetic programming, tabu search, simulated annealing, and others, but fail to teach the underlying concepts
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Advisory Board: S. Amari G. Brassard K.A. De Jong C.C.A.M. Gielen T. Head L. Kari L. Landweber T. Martinetz Z. Michalewicz M.C. Mozer E. Oja G. P˘aun J. Reif H. Rubin A. Salomaa M. Schoenauer H.-P. Schwefel C. Torras D. Whitley E. Winfree J.M. Zurada
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Franz Rothlauf
Design of Modern Heuristics Principles and Application
Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf Chair of Information Systems and Business Administration Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Gutenberg School of Management and Economics Jakob-Welder-Weg 9 55099 Mainz Germany [email protected] Series Editors G. Rozenberg (Managing Editor) [email protected] Th. Bäck, J.N. Kok, H.P. Spaink Leiden Center for Natural Computing Leiden University Niels Bohrweg 1 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands A.E. Eiben Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands
ISSN 1619-7127 Natural Computing Series ISBN 978-3-540-72961-7 e-ISBN 978-3-540-72962-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-72962-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934137 ACM Computing Classification (1998): I.2.8, G.1.6, H.4.2 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: KünkelLopka GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Gewidmet Elisabeth2 und Alfons Rothlauf
Foreword
This is the kind of book that all students interested in search and optimization should read. Almost half of the book is devoted to laying a foundation for understanding search and optimization for both heuristic methods and more traditional exact methods. This is really why the book is so valuable. It puts heuristic search in context, and this integrated view is important and is often lacking in other books on modern heuristic search. The book then goes on to provide an excellent tutorial level discussion of heuristic methods such as evolutionary algorithms, variable neighborhood search, iterated local search and tabu search. The book is a valuable contribution to the field. Other books have tried to provide the same breadth by collecting together tutorials by multiple authors. But Prof. Rothlauf’s book is stronger because it provides an integra
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