The International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics reached its third edition with HM 2006. The active and successful participation in the past editions was a clear indication that the research community on metaheuristics and related areas felt the need for a forum to discuss speci?c aspects of hybridization of metaheuristics. The selection of papers for HM 2006 consolidated some of the mainstream issues that have emerged from the past editions. Firstly, there are prominent examples of e?ective hybrid techniques whose design and implementation were motivated by challenging real-world...

Optimization problems are of great importance across a broad range of fields. They can be tackled, for example, by approximate algorithms such as metaheuristics. This book is intended both to provide an overview of hybrid metaheuristics to novices of the field, and to provide researchers from the field with a collection of some of the most interesting recent developments. The authors involved in this book are among the top researchers in their domain.

Real-world problems and modern optimization techniques to solve them

Here, a team of international experts brings together core ideas for solving complex problems in optimization across a wide variety of real-world settings, including computer science, engineering, transportation, telecommunications, and bioinformatics.

Part One--covers methodologies for complex problem solving including genetic programming, neural networks, genetic algorithms, hybrid evolutionary algorithms, and more.

Part Two--delves into applications including DNA sequencing and reconstruction, location of...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 4, held in Venice, Italy, in January 2010.The 23 regular and 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. Topics covered include metaheuristics (tabu search, iterated local search, evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms, ant colony optmization, particle swarm optimization); hybridizations of metaheuristics with other techniques for optimization; supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning applied to heuristic...

Research in hybrid metaheuristics is now established as a reference ?eld in the areas of optimization and problem solving. Hybrid metaheuristics have a strong impactonapplicationsbecausethey providee?cientandpowerfulproblemso- ing techniques for optimization problems in industry. Furthermore, the related interdisciplinary research community provides a fertile environment where in- vative techniques are presented and discussed. The International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics pursues the direction of combining application-oriented and foundational research. This is dem- strated by the...

Swarm intelligence is a modern arti?cial intelligence discipline that is c- cerned with the design of multiagent systems with applications, e.g., in - timization and in robotics. The design paradigm for these systems is fun- mentally di?erent from more traditional approaches. Instead of a sophisticated controller that governs the global behavior of the system, the swarm intelligence principle is based on many unsophisticated entities that cooperate in order to exhibit a desired behavior. Inspiration for the design of these systems is taken from the collective behavior of social insects such...

Optimization problems are of great importance across a broad range of fields. They can be tackled, for example, by approximate algorithms such as metaheuristics. This book is intended both to provide an overview of hybrid metaheuristics to novices of the field, and to provide researchers from the field with a collection of some of the most interesting recent developments. The authors involved in this book are among the top researchers in their domain.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 1,3, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf (Philosophische Fakultat), Veranstaltung: Sprechstile im Wandel der Zeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit es die ersten Computer gibt, gibt es auch Videospiele. Was 1946 an raumfullenden Rechnern nur wenigen beteiligten Wissenschaftlern vorbehalten war, begeistert inzwischen viele hundert Millionen Spieler auf der ganzen Welt. Naturlich haben sich die Spiele parallel zu der Weiterentwicklung der Hardware ebenso verandert und an Komplexitat stets zugenommen. Wahrend das...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Altere Deutsche Literatur, Mediavistik, Note: 1,5, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf (Philosophische Fakultat), Veranstaltung: Oswald von Wolkenstein, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Idee zur vorliegenden Arbeit entstand im Zuge der intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit Oswalds Lyrik. Das Leben des geburtigen Tirolers ist eines der am besten dokumentierten seiner Zeit. Dies fuhrt in vielen Fallen der ersten Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Thematik jedoch schnell zu einem recht unubersichtlichen Fluss an Information. Doch dank der gut...