Heuristic Search: The Emerging Science of Problem Solving

✍ Scribed by Saïd Salhi (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Heuristic search, the applications of which are now widely used in a variety of industries including engineering, finance, sport, management and medicine. It intends to aid researchers and practitioners in solving complex combinatorial and global optimisation problems, and spark interest in this exciting decision science-based subject. It will provide the reader with challenging and lively methodologies through which they will be able to design and analyse their own techniques

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Improvement-Only Heuristics....Pages 19-47
Not Necessary Improving Heuristics....Pages 49-76
Population-Based Heuristics....Pages 77-128
Hybridisation Search....Pages 129-156
Implementation Issues....Pages 157-188
Applications, Conclusion and Research Challenges....Pages 189-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-213

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems;Big Data/Analytics;Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity