| Title: | Search Methodologies |
| Other Titles: | Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques |
| Authors: | Burke, Edmund K. Kendall, Graham |
| Keywords: | Methodologies Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Abstract: | This is not so much a foreword as a testimonial. As I embarked on the pleasant journey of reading through the chapters of this book, I became convinced that this is one of the best sources of introductory material on the search methodologies topic to be found. The book’s subtitle, “Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques,” aptly describes its aim, and the editors and contributors to this volume have achieved this aim with remarkable success. The chapters in this book are exemplary in giving useful guidelines for imple- menting the methods and frameworks described. They are tutorials in the way tuto- rials ought to be designed. I found no chapter that did not contain interesting and relevant information and found several chapters that can only be qualified as de- lightful. |
| Description: | The first edition of this book, which appeared in 2005, grew out of a 1-day work- shop entitled Introductory Tutorials in Search, Optimization and Decision Support Methodologies (INTROS), which was held in Nottingham, UK, in August 2003. It had 19 chapters which gave broad coverage of the predominant search methodolo- gies at the time. This second edition contains updated versions of the chapters, and we have also included three additional chapters (Scatter Search, Chap. 5; GRASP: Greedy Ran- domized Adaptive Search Procedures, Chap. 11; and Very Large-Scale Neighbor- hood Search, Chap. 13). These new chapters, along with the revised chapters, we believe, provide significant insight to the most popular search methodologies that are in use today. There are many people that we need to thank. Without their help and support, this book would not have been possible. We are grateful to Jacek Blazewicz for writing such a generous and positive foreword for this second edition. We are deeply in- debted to all the authors for their contributions and for their patience about the time that it took to get this edition into press. The authors represent a distinguished group of scientists who have all prepared, and updated, excellent contributions in a consci- entious and professional way. We are also grateful to our excellent copy editor, Piers Maddox. We recognize that we did not always provide him with the material in a form that he would have preferred. However, he dealt with everything very quickly and extremely dilligently. We would also like to extend our thanks to the staff at Springer, particularly Matthew Amboy, who have supported the preparation of this book from the very beginning. We hope you enjoy reading this book and gain as much from it as we gained in editing it. |
| URI: | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/178 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4614-6940-7 |
| Appears in Collections: | ARTS & SCIENCE |
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| 2014_Book_SearchMethodologies.pdf | 8.04 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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