Scatter Search Method for Solving Industrial Problems: Literature Survey

The evolutionary approach called scatter search is originated from strategies for creating composite decision rules and surrogate constraints. Recent studies demonstrate the practical advantages of these approaches. Scatter search method have recently been investigated optimization technique and alternative of the other Meta heuristic methods. The scatter search is an evolutionary search method whose principles were introduced in the early 1970. Before the 1990 there weren’t enough studies in the literature. Due to recent successful application of scatter search, there have been intensive researches in the literature. In this paper we demonstrate the procedure of scatter search and steps of method for application industrial problems. The goal of this paper is a literature survey of recent applications of scatter search methods on industrial problems.