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Title

Parallel metaheuristics : a new class of algorithms / edited by Enrique Alba.

Publication

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Alba, Enrique.

Description

xvii, 554 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Parallel Metaheuristics brings together an international group of experts in parallelism and metaheuristics to provide a much-needed synthesis of these two fields. Readers discover how metaheuristic techniques can provide useful and practical solutions for a wide range of problems and application domains, with an emphasis on the fields of telecommunications and bioinformatics. This volume fills a long-existing gap, allowing researchers and practitioners to develop efficient metaheuristic algorithms to find solutions." "This is essential reading for students and researchers in computer science, mathematics, and engineering who deal with parallelism, metaheuristics, and optimization in general."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing

Uniform Title

Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing.

Subjects

• Operations research
• Mathematical optimization
• Parallel algorithms

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. An introduction to metaheuristic techniques / Christian Blum, Andrea Roli and Enrique Alba -- 2. Measuring the performance of parallel metaheuristics / Enrique Alba and Gabriel Luque -- 3. New technologies in parallelism / Enrique Alba and Antonio J. Nebro -- 4. Metaheuristics and parallelism / Enrique Alba, El-Ghazali Talbi, Gabriel Luque and Nouredine Melab -- 5. Parallel genetic algorithms / Gabriel Luque, Enrique Alba and Bernabe Dorronsoro -- 6. Parallel genetic programming / F. Fernandez, G. Spezzano, M. Tomassini and L. Vanneschi -- 7. Parallel evolution strategies / Gunter Rudolph -- 8. Parallel ant colony algorithms / Stefan Janson, Daniel Merkle and Martin Middendorf -- 9. Parallel estimation of distribution algorithms / Julio Madera, Enrique Alba and Alberto Ochoa -- 10. Parallel scatter search / F. Garcia, M. Garcia, B. Melian, J. A. Moreno-Perez and J. M. Moreno-Vega -- 11. Parallel variable neighborhood search / Jose A. Moreno-Perez, Pierre Hansen and Nenad Mladenovic -- 12. Parallel simulated annealing / M. Emin Aydin and Vecihi Yigit -- 13. Parallel tabu search / Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau and Jean-Yves Potvin -- 14. Parallel greedy randomized adaptive search procedures / Mauricio G. C. Resende and Celso C. Ribeiro -- 15. Parallel hybrid metaheuristics / Carlos Cotta, El-Ghazali Talbi and Enrique Alba -- 16. Parallel multiobjective optimization / Antonio J. Nebro, Francisco Luna, El-Ghazali Talbi and Enrique Alba -- 17. Parallel heterogeneous metaheuristics / Francisco Luna, Enrique Alba and Antonio J. Nebro -- 18. Theory of parallel genetic algorithms / Erick Cantu-Paz -- 19. Parallel metaheuristics applications / Teodor Gabriel Crainic and Nourredine Hail -- 20. Parallel metaheuristics in telecommunications / Sergio Nesmachnow, Hector Cancela, Enrique Alba and Francisco Chicano -- 21. Bioinformatics and parallel metaheuristics / Oswaldo Trelles and Andres Rodriguez.

ISBN

0471678066 (cloth)

LCCN

• 2005001251
• 9780471678069

OCLC

• ocm57557678
• SCSB-5212271

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries