How to Solve It

Modern Heuristics

By: Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel

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Hardcover | 21 September 2004 | Edition Number 2

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Preface
Introduction
What Are the Ages of My Three Sons?
Why Are Some Problems Difficult to Solve?
How Important Is a Model?
Basic Concepts
What Are the Prices in 7-11
Traditional Methods - Part 1
What Are the Numbers?
Traditional Methods - Part 2
What's the Color of the Bear?
Escaping Local Optima
How Good Is Your Intuition?
An Evolutionary Approach
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others
Designing Evolutionary Algorithms
What Is the Shortest Way?
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Who Owns the Zebra?
Constraint-Handling Techniques
Can You Tune to the Problem?
Tuning the Algorithm to the Problem
Can You Mate in Two Moves?
Time-Varying Environments and Noise
Day of the Week of January 1st
Neural Networks
What Was the Length of the Rope?
Fuzzy Systems
Everything Depends on Something else
Coevolutionary Systems
Who is Taller?
Multicriteria Decision-Making
Do You Like Simple Solutions?
Hybrid Systems
Summary
Appendices
References
Index
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