Heuristic Search The Emerging Science of Problem Solving

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Heuristic search, the applications of which are now widely...

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Main Author Salhi, Saïd
Format eBook Publication
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2017
Springer International Publishing AG
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition1
SeriesSpringerLink
Subjects
Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
Algorithms
Big data
Big Data/Analytics
Business
Business and Management
Business Information Systems
Computer science
Computer Science, general
Computer software
Decision making
Heuristic
Heuristik
Management information systems
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Problem solving
Theorie
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Summary:This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Heuristic search, the applications of which are now widely used in a variety of industries including engineering, finance, sport, management and medicine. It intends to aid researchers and practitioners in solving complex combinatorial and global optimisation problems, and spark interest in this exciting decision science-based subject. It will provide the reader with challenging and lively methodologies through which they will be able to design and analyse their own techniques
ISBN:3319493558
9783319493558
331949354X
9783319493541
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49355-8