Multi-agent based cooperative search in combinatorial optimisation

Cooperative search provides a class of strategies to design more effective search methodologies by combining (meta-) heuristics for solving combinatorial optimisation problems. This area has been little explored in operational research. This thesis proposes a general agent-based distributed framewor...

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Main Author: Martin, Simon
Other Authors: Ouelhadj, Djamila ; Jones, Dylan Francis
Published: University of Portsmouth 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570686