Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

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Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization is written by Carlos Cotta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3642010083 (ISBN 10) and 9783642010088 (ISBN 13).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2009, held in Tübingen, Germany, in April 2009. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers present the latest research and discuss current developments and applications in metaheuristics - a paradigm to effectively solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of metaheuristics are evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, scatter search, memetic algorithms, variable neighborhood search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms and ant colony optimization.