EASYLOCAL++: an object-oriented framework for the flexible design of local-search algorithms

• Published in: Software, practice & experience Vol. 33; no. 8; pp. 733 - 765
• Main Authors: Di Gaspero, Luca, Schaerf, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 10.07.2003
• Subjects: (meta-)heuristics; algorithms design and implementation; analysis of algorithms; local search

Local search is a paradigm for search and optimization problems, which has recently evidenced to be very effective for a large number of combinatorial problems. Despite the increasing interest of the research community in this subject, there is still a lack of a widely‐accepted software tools for lo...