A hybrid VNS/tabu search algorithm for apportioning the european parliament

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

Volumn 3906 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 284-292

  Villa, Gabriel ^a   Lozano, Sebastián ^a   Racero, Jesús ^a   Canca, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING (MILP); PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (PR); TABU SEARCH (TS); VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH (VNS);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33745795276     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11730095_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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