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Celso C. Ribeiro
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Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Pierre Hansen
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École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Canada
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Finding exact solutions to many combinatorial optimization problems in busi ness, engineering, and science still poses a real challenge, despite the impact of recent advances in mathematical programming and computer technology. New fields of applications, such as computational biology, electronic commerce, and supply chain management, bring new challenges and needs for algorithms and optimization techniques. Metaheuristics are master procedures that guide and modify the operations of subordinate heuristics, to produce improved approx imate solutions to hard optimization problems with respect to more simple algorithms. They also provide fast and robust tools, producing high-quality solutions in reasonable computation times. The field of metaheuristics has been fast evolving in recent years. Tech niques such as simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, scatter search, greedy randomized adaptive search, variable neighborhood search, ant systems, and their hybrids are currently among the most efficient and robust optimization strategies to find high-quality solutions to many real-life optimiza tion problems. A very large nmnber of successful applications of metaheuristics are reported in the literature and spread throughout many books, journals, and conference proceedings. A series of international conferences entirely devoted to the theory, applications, and computational developments in metaheuristics has been attracting an increasing number of participants, from universities and the industry.
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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- Marcelo P. Bastos, Celso C. Ribeiro
Pages 39-58
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- S. Binato, W. J. Hery, D. M. Loewenstern, M. G. C. Resende
Pages 59-79
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- Silvio Binato, Gerson Couto Oliveira
Pages 81-100
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- Jacek Btażewicz, Adrian Moret Salvador, Rafat Walkowiak
Pages 101-128
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- Pedro Castro Borges, Michael Pilegaard Hansen
Pages 129-150
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- Alfredo Candia, Hugo Bravo
Pages 169-183
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- Carlos Carreto, Barrie Baker
Pages 185-199
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- Cristina C. B. Cavalcante, Victor F. Cavalcante, Celso C. Ribeiro, Cid C. de Souza
Pages 201-225
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- Luís Cavique, César Rego, Isabel Themido
Pages 227-244
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- Irène Charon, Olivier Hudry
Pages 245-261
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- Van-Dat Cung, Simone L. Martins, Celso C. Ribeiro, Catherine Roucairol
Pages 263-308
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- Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, Marius M. Solomon
Pages 309-324
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- Paola Festa, Mauricio G.C. Resende
Pages 325-367
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- Anthony Fu-Wha Han, Yuh-Jen Cho
Pages 399-413
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- Pierre Hansen, Nenad Mladenović
Pages 415-439
Authors and Affiliations
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Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Celso C. Ribeiro
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École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Canada
Pierre Hansen