| Article ID: | iaor20022457 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 67 |
| End Page Number: | 86 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Salhi S. |
| Keywords: | graphs |
An investigation to explicitly define two key elements in tabu search methods is attempted. In this study a functional representation of the tabu list size is presented and a softer aspiration criterion is put forward. Experiments are conducted on a set of