PARALLEL METAHEURISTICS A New Class of Algorithms; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Contributors; 1 An Introduction to Metaheuristic Techniques; 2 Measuring the Performance of Parallel Metaheuristics; 3 New Technologies in Parallelism; 4 Metaheuristics and Parallelism; 5 Parallel Genetic Algorithms; 6 Parallel Genetic Programming; 7 Parallel Evolution Strategies; 8 Parallel Ant Colony Algorithms; 9 Parallel Estimation of Distribution Algorithms; 10 Parallel Scatter Search; 11 Parallel Variable Neighborhood Search; 12 Parallel Simulated Annealing; 13 Parallel Tabu Search
Summary
With the proliferation of parallel computers and faster community networks, parallel metaheuristics are an effective alternative to speed up the search for approximate solutions of optimizations problems and allow solving larger problems while leading to more efficient algorithms
