This article presents information on the book "Handbook of Metaheuristics," edited by F.W. Glover and G.A. Kochenberger. The term "heuristic" refers to solution methods/algorithms that cannot guarantee to find optimal solutions. The addition of the syllable "meta" refers to the fact that ...
The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic: Algorithms, Applications, and Advances Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle Pages 250-285 The Theory and Practice of Simulated Annealing Darrall Henderson, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Alan W. Johnson Pages 287-319 ...
Its effectiveness and efficiency has rendered it a valuable metaheuristic approach in various scientific fields where complex optimization problems appear. Its simplicity has made it accessible to the non-expert researchers, while the potential for easy adaptation of operators and integration of new ...
Heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, loosely applicable information to control problem solving. Algorithms, for example, are a type of heuristic. By contrast, Metaheuristics are methods used to design Heuristics and may coordinate the usage of several Heuristics toward the formulation of a...