Metaheuristics: A Canadian perspective

INFOR

Volumn 46, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 71-80

  Gendreau, Michel ^a   Potvin, Jean Yves ^a  

^a INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Combinatorial optimization; Evolutionary algorithms; Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure; Metaheuristics; Simulated annealing; Tabu search; Variable neighbourhood search

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GREEDY RANDOMIZED ADAPTIVE SEARCH PROCEDURE; METAHEURISTICS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TABU SEARCH; VARIABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD SEARCH;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 51349141338     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/infor.46.1.71     Document Type: Article

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