Meta-heuristics support managers in decision-making with robust tools that provide high-quality solutions to important applications in business, engineering, economics and science in reasonable time horizons. In this paper we give some insight into the state of the art of meta-heuristics. This primarily focuses on the significant progress which general frames within the meta-heuristics field ha...

Scheduling is one of the core steps to efficiently exploit the capabilities of heterogeneous distributed computing systems and represents an NP-complete problem. Therefore, using meta-heuristic algorithms is a suitable approach in order to cope with its difficulty. In many meta-heuristic algorithms, generating individuals in the initial step has an important effect on the convergence behavior o...

The goal of this paper is to investigate to what extent a rule learning heuristic can be learned from experience. Our basic approach is to learn a large number of rules and record their performance on the test set. Subsequently, we train regression algorithms on predicting the test set performance from training set characteristics. We investigate several variations of this basic scenario, inclu...

This paper browses through some well-known meta-heuristic search strategies, and briefly discusses some of their recent applications to the VLSI layout design process. It starts with very brief description of the different phases of VLSI layout design, and a brief overview of Meta-Heuristic search strategies. Since most of the VLSI layout design problems are hard optimization problems, the conc...

In recent years, meta-heuristics have become increasingly interesting in solving combinatorial problems including hardware-software partitioning. In this paper, we present a comparative study between some algorithms which involve meta-heuristics based on Tabu search, genetic algorithm and Binary Search Trees to address the problem of hardware-software partitioning. In fact, meta-heuristics can ...

parcel delivery is a complex logistic service, as it serves many small or medium-sized customers who may send or receive parcels. modeling such delivery system needs to integrate two different research areas of hub location and vehicle routing. as it totally depends on the network and the linkage of the nodes, in this paper, some door-to-door service providers are taken into account to provide ...

This paper proposes a three-stage matheuristic solution strategy for the capacitated multi-commodity fixed-cost network design problem with design-balance constraints. The proposed matheuristic combines exact and neighbourhood-based methods. The proposed tabu-search and path-relinking meta-heuristics cooperate to generate as many feasible solutions as possible. The two meta-heuristics incorpora...

In this paper an effort is made to present a state-of-the-art review of meta-heuristic approaches in solving facility layout problems. Facility layout directly affects the productivity of the industries so it is very important to solve it carefully. There are many approaches, methods and techniques to solve and optimize the layout problem. The current and future trends involving design objectiv...

The 18th EURO Summer/Winter Institute (ESWI XVIII) took place during the spring 2000 in Switzerland. The topic of ESWI XVIII, ‘‘Meta-heuristics in Combinatorial Optimization’’, was selected due to its great current scientific interest: indeed, in recent years, several meta-heuristics have proved to be highly efficient for the solution of difficult combinatorial optimization problems. The Instit...