Article ID: | iaor19971520 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 513 |
End Page Number: | 623 |
Publication Date: | May 1996 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Laporte Gilbert, Osman Ibrahim H. |
Keywords: | heuristics, optimization: simulated annealing |
Metaheuristics are the most exciting development in approximate optimization techniques of the last two decades. They have had widespread successes in attacking a variety of difficult combinatorial optimization problems that arise in many practical areas. This bibliography provides a classification of a comprehensive list of 1380 references on the theory and application of metaheuristics. Metaheuristics include but are not limited to constraint logic programming; greedy random adaptive search procedures; natural evolutionary computation; neural networks; non-monotonic search strategies; space-search methods; simulated annealing; tabu search; threshold algorithms and their hybrids. References are presented in alphabetical order under a number of subheadings.