How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics

✍ Scribed by Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz, Dr. David B. Fogel (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
Why Are Some Problems Difficult to Solve?....Pages 11-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-34
Basic Concepts....Pages 35-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-53
Traditional Methods — Part 1....Pages 55-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-86
Traditional Methods — Part 2....Pages 87-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-114
Escaping Local Optima....Pages 115-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-138
An Evolutionary Approach....Pages 139-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-160
Designing Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 161-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-188
The Traveling Salesman Problem....Pages 189-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-229
Constraint-Handling Techniques....Pages 231-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-276
Tuning the Algorithm to the Problem....Pages 277-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-306
Time-Varying Environments and Noise....Pages 307-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-333
Neural Networks....Pages 335-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-362
Fuzzy Systems....Pages 363-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-390
Hybrid Systems....Pages 391-401
Summary....Pages 403-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-467

✦ Subjects

Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity;Complexity;Business Information Systems;Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control;Optimization;Quantitative Finance;Statistics, general