The author takes a different approach in this textbook by focusing on the users' needs and answering three fundamental questions: First, he tells us which problems modern heuristics are expected to perform well on, and which should be left to traditional optimization methods. Se…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed workshop proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2022, which was colocated with ALGO 2022 and took place in Potsdam, Germany, in September 2022. The 12 …
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2022, which was held in Singapore, in November 2022.The 6 regular papers, the NIER and RENE tracks as well as the Challenge Track that were included in this volu…
Mathematical preparations -- Optimization problems and existence of optimal solutions -- Necessary and sufficient conditions of optimal solutions -- Problems with convexity and quasi-convexity conditions -- Linear programming "Mathematically, most of the interesting optimizatio…
