| Article ID: | iaor19931583 |
| Country: | Italy |
| Issue: | 62 |
| Start Page Number: | 5 |
| End Page Number: | 28 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1992 |
| Journal: | Ricerca Operativa |
| Authors: | De Werra D., Fiechter C.N., Rogger A. |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
A general presentation of Tabu Search is given with emphasis on parallelization; applications of this global approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem and to the Quadratic Assignment Problem are described. Experimental results show that Tabu Search may handle large size combinatorial problems with success.