It has been shown that evolutionary algorithms are able to construct suitable search strategies for classes of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) in Constraint Programming. This paper is an explanation of the use of multi-objective optimisation in contrast to simple additive weighting...

"This book explores the aspects of industrial portfolio management with reference to proper selection of financial instruments in a financial portfolio management scenario from a metaheuristic approach. It also illustrates the common measures used for the evaluation of risks/returns of...

"This book addresses the main strategies to build able algorithms for building better picking orders. It also examines the most common picking aspects in warehouse environments, ranging from manual order picking systems, automated retrieval systems, and related topics. Additionally, the book...

"This book explores the aspects of industrial portfolio management with reference to proper selection of financial instruments in a financial portfolio management scenario from a metaheuristic approach. It also illustrates the common measures used for the evaluation of risks/returns of...

This book highlights state-of-the-art developments in metaheuristics research. It examines all aspects of metaheuristic research including new algorithmic developments, applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, in-depth experimental studies. The book...

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...

"This book considers the foremost optimization algorithms in several applications. It deals primarily with methods and approaches that include meta-heuristics for further systems improvements. It grants substantial frameworks and the most contemporary empirical research outcomes in employing...

We model the decision making process used by experts at the Canadian Innovation Centre to classify early stage venture proposals based on potential commercial success. The decision is based on thirty seven attributes that take values in (-1; 0; 1). We adopt a conjunctive decision framework due to...

In der Arbeit wird ein Permutation Flow Shop Problem mit mehrfacher Zielsetzung betrachtet. Das Problem der Reihenfolgeplanung von Auftr?gen in einem Produktionssystem hat seit der Ver?ffentlichung des Johnson Algorithmus 1954 wesentliche Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Dabei wurden haupts?chlich...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most studied problems in the field of Operations Research. Closely related to the VRP is the Capacitated Clustering Problem (CCP). The VRP can be considered as an 'extension' of the CCP in the way that for each cluster in the CCP solution,...

Primäres Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Entwicklung neuer heuristischer Lösungsverfahren für die logistische Tourenplanung bei restringierendem Anhängereinsatz (engl. Truck and Trailer Routing Problem). Kennzeichnend für dieses kombinatorische Optimierungsproblem ist, dass Fahrzeuge einen...

Preliminaries -- The Knapsack Problem and Straightforward Optimization Methods -- Search Heuristics -- Metaheuristics -- Metaheuristics in General -- Metaheuristics Based on Solution Construction -- Metaheuristics Based on Solution Modification -- Metaheuristics Based on Solution Recombination...