TY - GEN digital ID - 131225242 TI - Metaheuristic search concepts: a tutorial with applications to production and logistics AU - Zäpfel, Günther AU - Braune, Roland AU - Bögl, Michael PY - 2010 SN - 9783642113420 9783642113437 9783642113727 9783642425110 PB - Heidelberg Springer DB - UniCat KW - Operational research. Game theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131225242 AB - The book gives an introduction to metaheuristics for students and practitioners. It requires no prior knowledge of the field, as the basic concepts are developed step by step from the bottom up using the knapsack problem and therefore allowing the user to concentrate on the main ideas of metaheuristics. The concepts are then expanded to concrete algorithms, which are described in detail. Then a systematization of the algorithms is established and compared with existing classification schemes from literature. The last part of the book deals with the application of popular metaheuristics to two optimization problems from the field of production and logistics, namely the Job Shop Scheduling and the Vehicle Routing Problem, based on examples. ER -