Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in medicine is the result of a large amount of effort
expended in the interface of medicine and computer science. As some CAD systems in …

Tabu search is a “higher level” heuristic procedure for solving optimization problems,
designed to guide other methods (or their component processes) to escape the trap of local …

Architecture and Function of Complex Systems System architecture is the study of early
decision making in complex systems. This text teaches how to capture experience and …

In recent years the unconstrained binary quadratic program (UBQP) has grown in
importance in the field of combinatorial optimization due to its application potential and its …

“Satisfiability (SAT) related topics have attracted researchers from various disciplines: logic,
applied areas such as planning, scheduling, operations research and combinatorial …

Faced with the challenge of solving hard optimization problems that abound in the real
world, classical methods often encounter great difficulty. Vitally important applications in …

This paper presents the fundamental principles underlying tabu search as a strategy for
combinatorial optimization problems. Tabu search has achieved impressive practical …

Systematic change of neighborhood within a local search algorithm yields a simple and
effective metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization. We present a basic scheme for this …

Systematic change of neighborhood within a possibly randomized local search algorithm
yields a simple and effective metaheuristic for combinatorial and global optimization, called …

Variable neighborhood search (VNS) is a metaheuristic for solving combinatorial and global
optimization problems whose basic idea is a systematic change of neighborhood both within …