How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics

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Main Authors: Michalewicz, Zbigniew, Fogel, David B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2004
Edition:2nd ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a I What Are the Ages of My Three Sons? -- 1 Why Are Some Problems Difficult to Solve? -- II How Important Is a Model? -- 2 Basic Concepts -- III What Are the Prices in 7–11? -- 3 Traditional Methods — Part 1 -- IV What Are the Numbers? -- 4 Traditional Methods — Part 2 -- V What’s the Color of the Bear? -- 5 Escaping Local Optima -- VI How Good Is Your Intuition? -- 6 An Evolutionary Approach -- VII One of These Things Is Not Like the Others -- 7 Designing Evolutionary Algorithms -- VIII What Is the Shortest Way? -- 8 The Traveling Salesman Problem -- IX Who Owns the Zebra? -- 9 Constraint-Handling Techniques -- X Can You Tune to the Problem? -- 10 Tuning the Algorithm to the Problem -- XI Can You Mate in Two Moves? -- 11 Time-Varying Environments and Noise -- XII Day of the Week of January 1st -- 12 Neural Networks -- XIII What Was the Length of the Rope? -- 13 Fuzzy Systems -- XIV Everything Depends on Something Else -- 14 Coevolutionary Systems -- XV Who’s Taller? -- 15 Multicriteria Decision-Making -- XVI Do You Like Simple Solutions? -- 16 Hybrid Systems -- 17 Summary -- Appendix A: Probability and Statistics -- A.1 Basic concepts of probability -- A.2 Random variables -- A.2.1 Discrete random variables -- A.2.2 Continuous random variables -- A.3 Descriptive statistics of random variables -- A.4 Limit theorems and inequalities -- A.5 Adding random variables -- A.6 Generating random numbers on a computer -- A.7 Estimation -- A.8 Statistical hypothesis testing -- A.9 Linear regression -- A.10 Summary -- Appendix B: Problems and Projects -- B.1 Trying some practical problems -- B.2 Reporting computational experiments with heuristic methods -- References 
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