Description: Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization : With Python Codes for the Travelling Salesman Problem, Paperback by Taillard, Éric D., ISBN 3031137167, ISBN-13 9783031137167, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques discussed. This problem is ideal for introducing readers to the subject because it is very intuitive and its solutions can be graphically represented. Th features a wealth of illustrations that allow the concepts to be understood at a glance. Th approaches the main metaheuristics from a new angle, deconstructing them into a few key concepts presented in separate chapters: construction, improvement, decomposition, randomization and learning methods. Each metaheuristic can then be presented in simplified form as a combination of these concepts. This approach avoids giving the impression that metaheuristics is a non-formal discipline, a kind of cloud sculpture. Moreover, it provides concrete applications of the travelling salesman problem, which illustrate in just a few lines of code how to design a new heuristic and remove all ambiguities left by a general framework. Two chapters reviewing the basics of combinatorial optimization and complexity theory make th self-contained. As such, even readers with a very limited background in the field will be able to follow all the content.
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Book Title: Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization : With Python Codes for the Travelling Salesman Problem
Number of Pages: Xv, 287 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: Numerical Analysis, Operations Research, Optimization
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Mathematics, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 16.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Éric D. Taillard
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Graduate Texts in Operations Research Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
