State of the art in parallel search techniques for discrete optimization problems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-35

  Grama, Ananth ^b   Kumar, Vipin ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS (DOP);

GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATE SPACE METHODS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032649748     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.755612     Document Type: Article

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