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Cooperative Methods in Optimisation
Contributor(s): Masegosa, Antonio D. (Author), A. Pelta, David (Author), L. Verdegay, José (Author)
ISBN: 3844324585     ISBN-13: 9783844324587
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $81.05  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2011
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- Computers | Information Technology
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 220 pages
 
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This book is a PhD dissertation which focuses on the study, design, development and application of centralised cooperative strategies for optimisation problems. These models consist of a set of parallel cooperating agents, where each agent carries out a search in a solution space sharing information with the rest of the agents. Many studies have shown that this cooperation leads to more efficient and effective strategies. The authors start describing the most known trajectory and population-based metaheuristics and introduce the cooperative strategies. The core of this book is devoted to the following topics: analysis of the composition and the cooperation scheme, hybridization with Reactive Search ideas, application of centralised cooperative strategies to Dynamic Optimisation Problems and resolution of sets of instances by a cooperative method. The book is addressed to students or researchers in the fields of Intelligent Systems, Soft Computing, Optimisation Techniques and, especially, Hybrid Metaheuristics.