This textbook by El-Ghazali Talbi provides a comprehensive overview of metaheuristics for the design and implementation of powerful algorithms to solve complex optimization problems. It covers various applications in industries such as network management, bioinformatics, design, routing, and planning.
The content focuses on the core components of metaheuristics, with an emphasis on efficient forms of local search methods, evolutionary algorithms, multi-objective optimization, and hybrid systems. The practical approach helps readers in designing solutions and implementing them within a software framework, from design to implementation.
Product information
- Author: El-Ghazali Talbi (University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication date: 10 July 2009
- Number of pages: 624
- ISBN: 9780470278581
- Subject: Optimization
- BISAC: MATHEMATICS / Optimization
About the author
El-Ghazali Talbi is a professor of computer science at the University of Lille and head of the optimization group of the Computer Science Laboratory (L.I.F.L.). His research focuses on metaheuristics, parallel algorithms, and multi-objective combinatorial optimization, with applications in bioinformatics, network management, transportation, and logistics.