Adaptive and Multilevel Metaheuristics

This cutting edge volume presents recent advances in the area of adaptativeness in metaheuristic optimization. It includes up-to-date reviews of hyperheuristics and self-adaptation in evolutionary algorithms.

This volume presents recent advances in the area of adaptativeness in metaheuristic optimization, including up-to-date reviews of hyperheuristics and self-adaptation in evolutionary algorithms, as well as cutting edge works on adaptive, self-adaptive and multilevel metaheuristics, with application to both combinatorial and continuous optimization.

Part I Reviews of the Field.- Hyperheuristics: Recent Developments.- Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation.- Part II New Techniques and Applications.- An Efficient Hyperheuristic for Strip-Packing Problems.- Probability-driven simulated annealing for optimizing digital FIR filters.- RASH: A Self-adaptive Random Search Method.- Market Based Allocation of Transportation Orders to Vehicles in Adaptive Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing.- A Simple Evolutionary Algorithm with Self-Adaptation for Multi-Objective Nurse Scheduling.- Individual Evolution as an Adaptive Strategy for Photogrammetric Network Design.- Adaptive Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Initialization and Displacement of the Particles in TRIBES, a Parameter-Free Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Evolution of Descent Directions.- "Multiple Neighbourhood" Search in Commercial VRP Packages: Evolving Towards Self-Adaptive Methods.- Automated Parameterisation of a Metaheuristic for the Orienteering Problem.