How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics

✍ Scribed by Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 482
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is the only source that provides comprehensive, current, and correct information on problem solving using modern heuristics. It covers classic methods of optimization, including dynamic programming, the simplex method, and gradient techniques, as well as recent innovations such as simulated annealing, tabu search, and evolutionary computation. Integrated into the discourse is a series of problems and puzzles to challenge the reader. The book is written in a lively, engaging style and is intended for students and practitioners alike. Anyone who reads and understands the material in the book will be armed with the most powerful problem solving tools currently known.

✦ Table of Contents

How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 9
Introduction......Page 16
I. What Are the Ages of My Three Sons?......Page 24
II. How Important Is a Model?......Page 46
III. What Are the Prices In 7-11?......Page 64
IV. What Are the Numbers?......Page 98
V. What's the Color of the Bear?......Page 126
VI. How Good Is Your Intuition?......Page 150
VII. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others......Page 172
VIII. What Is the Shortest Way?......Page 200
IX. Who Owns t he Zebra?......Page 240
X. Can You Tune to t he Problem ?......Page 286
XI. Can You Mat e in Two Moves?......Page 318
XII. Day of t he Week of January 1st......Page 346
XIII . What Was t he Length of the Rop e ?......Page 374
XIV. Do You Like Simple Solutions ?......Page 400
Appendix A: Probability and Statistics......Page 430
Appendix B: Problems and Projects......Page 450
References......Page 460
Index......Page 480

✦ Subjects

Математика;Методы оптимизации;