Applications of racing algorithms: An industrial perspective

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3871 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 271-283

  Becker, Sven ^a   Gottlieb, Jens ^b   Stützle, Thomas ^c  

^a VEGA IT GmbH   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUND VEHICLES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROUTERS; SCHEDULING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION; PERSONAL-INTENSIVE PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC LOCAL SEARCH (SLS) METHODS; VRACING ALGORITHMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33745737927     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11740698_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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