The book Scatter Search by Manuel Laguna and Rafael Marti represents a long-awaited missing link in the literature of evolutionary methods. Scatter Search (SS)-together with its generalized form called Path Relinking-constitutes the only evolutionary approach that embraces a collection of principles from Tabu Search (TS), an approach popularly regarded to be divorced from evolutionary procedures. The TS perspective, which is responsible for introducing adaptive memory strategies into the metaheuristic literature (at purposeful level beyond simple inheritance mechanisms), may at first seem to be at odds with population-based approaches. Yet this perspective equips SS with a remarkably effective foundation for solving a wide range of practical problems. The successes documented by Scatter Search come not so much from the adoption of adaptive memory in the range of ways proposed in Tabu Search (except where, as often happens, SS is advantageously coupled with TS), but from the use of strategic ideas initially proposed for exploiting adaptive memory, which blend harmoniously with the structure of Scatter Search. From a historical perspective, the dedicated use of heuristic strategies both to guide the process of combining solutions and to enhance the quality of offspring has been heralded as a key innovation in evolutionary methods, giving rise to what are sometimes called hybrid (or memetic ) evolutionary procedures. The underlying processes have been introduced into the mainstream of evolutionary methods (such as genetic algorithms, for example) by a series of gradual steps beginning in the late 1980s.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781461350279
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148779894
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Data Analysis
Author
Rafael Marti, Manuel Laguna
Publication Name
Scatter Search: Methodology and Implementations in C
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science, Mathematics, Management
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
291 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
24
Item Weight
480g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Rafael Marti, Manuel Laguna
Series Title
Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Best Selling in Adult Learning & University
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Adult Learning & University