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Tabu Search (TS) and, more recently, Scatter Search (SS) have proved highly effective in solving a wide range of optimization problems, and have had a variety of applications in industry, science, and government. The goal of METAHEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION VIA MEMORY AND EVOLUTION: Tabu Search and Scatter Search is to report original research on algorithms and applications of tabu search, scatter search or both, as well as variations and extensions having "adaptive memory programming" as a primary focus. Individual chapters identify useful new implementations or new ways to integrate and apply the principles of TS and SS, or that prove new theoretical results, or describe the successful application of these methods to real world problems. From the preface: …Where Are We Headed? The chapters of this book provide a series of landmarks along the way as we investigate and seek to better understand the elements of tabu search and scatter search that account for their successes in an astonishingly varied range of applications. The contributions of the chapters are diverse in scope, and are not uniform in the degree that they plumb or take advantage of fundamental principles underlying TS and SS. Collectively, however, they offer a useful glimpse of issues that deserve to be set in sharper perspective, and that move us farther along the way toward dealing with problems whose size and complexity pose key challenges to the optimization methods of tomorrow... Fred Glover University of Colorado.

Operations research. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Computer programming

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Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques are e?cient nature-inspired pl- ning and optimization methods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their e?ciency and the simple underlying principles, these methods can be used for a large number of problems in the context of problem solving,optimization,andmachinelearning. Alargeandcontinuouslyincreasing number of researchers and practitioners make use of EC techniques in many - plication domains. The book at hand presents a careful selection of relevant EC applications combined with thorough examinations of techniques for a successful application of EC. The presented papers illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and should help and inspire researchers and practitioners to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving. All papers in this book were presented during EvoWorkshops 2005, which was a varying collection of workshops on application-oriented aspects of EC. Since 1999, the format of the EvoWorkshops has proved to be very successful and well representative of the advances in the application of EC. Consequently, over the last few years, EvoWorkshops has become one of the major events addressing the application of EC. In contrast to other large conferences in the EC ?eld, the EvoWorkshops focus solely on application aspects of EC and are an important link between EC research and the application of EC in a large variety of di?erent domains.

Computer science. --- Computer programming. --- Computers. --- Computer networks. --- Computer science—Mathematics. --- Computer vision. --- Theory of Computation. --- Programming Techniques. --- Computer Hardware. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Mathematical Applications in Computer Science. --- Computer Vision. --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Evolutionary computation

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Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to respond to changes in requirements and the environment. This book comprises revised and extended papers presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 at AAMAS as well as invited papers from leading researchers. The papers are organized in topical sections on state of the art, synthesis and design methods, self-assembly and robots, stigmergy and related topics, and industrial applications.

Artificial intelligence. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Computers and civilization. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Operating Systems. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Computers and Society. --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Self-organizing systems --- Evolutionary computation

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Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to respond to changes in requirements and the environment. This book comprises revised and extended papers presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 at AAMAS as well as invited papers from leading researchers. The papers are organized in topical sections on state of the art, synthesis and design methods, self-assembly and robots, stigmergy and related topics, and industrial applications.

Artificial intelligence. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Computers and civilization. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Operating Systems. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Computers and Society. --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Self-organizing systems --- Evolutionary computation

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This carefully edited book puts together the state-of-the-art and recent advances in knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation within a unified framework. The book provides a comprehensive self-contained view of knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation including a concise introduction to evolutionary algorithms as well as knowledge representation methods. "Knowledge Incorporation in Evolutionary Computation" is a valuable reference for researchers, students and professionals from engineering and computer science, in particular in the areas of artificial intelligence, soft computing, natural computing, and evolutionary computation.

Engineering. --- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Ingénierie --- Intelligence artificielle --- Mathématiques --- Mathématiques de l'ingénieur --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Applied Mathematics --- Civil Engineering --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Evolutionary computation. --- Computation, Evolutionary --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Math --- Science --- Mathematics --- Neural networks (Computer science) --- Computer programming --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Artificial Intelligence.