Introduction; Basic Examples; Indirect Solution Representations; Properties of Neighborhood Functions; Performance Guarantees; Time Complexity; Metaheuristics; Asymptotic Convergence of Simulated Annealing
Summary
Local search has been applied successively to a diverse collection of optimization problems, and in many cases with considerable success. Serving as a source of inspiration for the development of novel results in the challenging field of local search, this book presents a large collection of theoretical results
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220)-and indexes
