Category Archives: Heuristic & Constrained Search

Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization (Advances in Computational Management Science)

Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization consist of two parts. The first part (Foundations) deals with the foundations of portfolio optimization, its assumptions, approaches and the limitations when “traditional” optimization techniques are to be applied. In addition, the basic concepts of … Continue reading

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Metaheuristics: From Design to Implementation (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

A unified view of metaheuristics This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient algorithms to solve complex optimization problems across a diverse range of applications, from networking and bioinformatics to engineering … Continue reading

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Understanding Planning Tasks: Domain Complexity and Heuristic Decomposition (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

Action planning has always played a central role in Artificial Intelligence. Given a description of the current situation, a description of possible actions and a description of the goals to be achieved, the task is to identify a sequence of … Continue reading

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 14th International Conference, CP 2008, Sydney, Australia, September 14-18, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture … / Programming and Software Engineering)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2008, Sydney, Australia, September, 2008. The 27 revised full papers and 23 revised short papers presented together with 6 application papers … Continue reading

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Computer Science Logic: 22nd International Workshop, CSL 2008, 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Bertinoro, Italy, September 16-19, 2008, Proceedings … Computer Science and General Issues)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2008, held as the 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL in Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2008. The 31 revised full papers presented together with … Continue reading

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Reactive Search and Intelligent Optimization (Operations Research Computer Science Interfaces Series)

Reactive Search integrates sub-symbolic machine learning techniques into search heuristics for solving complex optimization problems. By automatically adjusting the working parameters, a reactive search self-tunes and adapts, effectively learning by doing until a solution is found. Intelligent Optimization, a superset … Continue reading

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Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques: Theory and Applications to Power Systems (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering)

This book explores how developing solutions with heuristic tools offers two major advantages: shortened development time and more robust systems. It begins with an overview of modern heuristic techniques and goes on to cover specific applications of heuristic approaches to … Continue reading

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Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI: 6th International Conference, PATAT 2006 Brno, Czech Republic, August 30-September 1, 2006 Revised Selected … Computer Science and General Issues) (v. 6)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, PATAT 2006, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in August/September 2006. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during a … Continue reading

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Multiobjective Optimization: Interactive and Evolutionary Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues)

Multiobjective optimization deals with solving problems having not only one, but multiple, often conflicting, criteria. Such problems can arise in practically every field of science, engineering and business, and the need for efficient and reliable solution methods is increasing. The … Continue reading

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2007: 13th International Conference, CP 2007, Providence, RI, USA, September 25-29, 2007, Proceedings … / Programming and Software Engineering)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2007, held in Providence, RI, USA, in September 2007. The 51 revised full papers and 14 revised short papers presented together … Continue reading

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