How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics /

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 simulate...

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Main Author: Michalewicz, Zbigniew
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fogel, David B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Edition:Second, Revised and Extended Edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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. This second edition contains two new chapters, one on coevolutionary systems and one on multicriterial decision-making. Also some new puzzles are added and various subchapters are revised.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 554 pages)
ISBN:9783662078075 (electronic bk.)
3662078074 (electronic bk.)