Special issue of Computers and Operations Research: GRASP with Path Relinking: Developments and applications

摘要

Faced with the challenge of solving hard optimization problems that abound in the real world, classical methods often encounter serious difficulties. Important applications in business, industry, engineering, economics and other areas cannot be tackled by the solution methods that have been the predominant focus of academic research in the past. Exact and heuristic approaches are dramatically changing our ability to solve problems of practical significance and are extending the frontier of problems that can be handled effectively.