A bicriteria traveling salesman problem with sequence priorities / Heinz Schmitz and Sebastian Niemann -- Metaheuristics for tourist trip planning / Pieter Vansteenwegen [and others] -- Solving fuzzy multi-item economic order quantity problems via fuzzy ranking functions and particle swarm...

Introduction to QUBO -- Applications and Computational Advances for Solving the QUBO Model -- Complexity and Polynomially Solvable Special Cases of QUBO -- The Boolean Quadric Polytope -- Autarkies and Persistencies for QUBO -- Mathematical Programming Models and Exact Algorithms -- The Random...

This book provides successful implementations of metaheuristic methods for neural network training. It is the first book to achieve this objective. Moreover, the basic principles and fundamental ideas given in the book will allow the readers to create successful training methods on their own....

Prices of contracts with risky aspects are typically linked to specific uncertainties and probabilities of adverse scenarios. Insurance companies carry the risk of losses in exchange for a premium, which depends on the loss distribution. Another example where risk is exchanged for a fixed price...