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A History of Metaheuristics

Artificial Intelligence 2017-04-05 v1

Abstract

This chapter describes the history of metaheuristics in five distinct periods, starting long before the first use of the term and ending a long time in the future.

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@article{arxiv.1704.00853,
  title  = {A History of Metaheuristics},
  author = {Kenneth Sorensen and Marc Sevaux and Fred Glover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00853},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

27 pages, to appear in: R. Marti, P. Pardalos, and M. Resende, eds., Handbook of Heuristics, Springer