Bøger af Manuel Laguna

This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business analytics. It addresses key problems in predictive and prescriptive analysis, while also illustrating how problems that arise in business analytics can be modelled and how metaheuristics can be used to find high-quality solutions.

Scatter Search (SS)-together with its generalized form called Path Relinking-constitutes the only evolutionary approach that embraces a collection of principles from Tabu Search (TS), an approach popularly regarded to be divorced from evolutionary procedures.

Explores the meta-heuristics approach called tabu search. This book presents the major ideas of tabu search with examples that show their relevance to multiple applications. It is suitable for researchers and practitioners in management science, industrial engineering, economics, and computer science.