Heuristic methods

Advances in Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue 9783540747567, 2015, Pages 145-189

  Malczewski, Jacek ^a   Rinner, Claus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Recombination; Sorting

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SORTING; TABU SEARCH;

GIS-BASED; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; META HEURISTICS; MULTIOBJECTIVE DECISION PROBLEMS; RECOMBINATION; SITE LOCATION; SPATIAL OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL PROBLEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 85025652807     PISSN: 18672434     EISSN: 18672442     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74757-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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