Bücher von Rafael Marti

In the last decades, algorithmic advances as well as hardware and software improvements have provided an excellent environment to create and develop solving methods to hard optimization problems.

This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business analytics. It addresses key problems in predictive and prescriptive analysis, while also illustrating how problems that arise in business analytics can be modelled and how metaheuristics can be used to find high-quality solutions.

'Exact' and 'heuristic' techniques are enhancing our ability to overcome intractable obstacles in the world of optimization. Using the linear ordering problem as an illustration, this text provides a toolkit for tackling a variety of combinatorial dilemmas.

Scatter Search (SS)-together with its generalized form called Path Relinking-constitutes the only evolutionary approach that embraces a collection of principles from Tabu Search (TS), an approach popularly regarded to be divorced from evolutionary procedures.