Introduction to the special issue on variable neighborhood search.
J. Marcos Moreno-VegaBelén MeliánPublished in: J. Heuristics (2008)
Keyphrases
- variable neighborhood search
- metaheuristic
- neighborhood search
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- routing problem
- heuristic methods
- minimum spanning tree
- single machine scheduling problem
- hybrid method
- vehicle routing problem
- benchmark instances
- path relinking
- search procedure
- simulated annealing
- ant colony optimization
- search space
- combinatorial optimization
- scatter search
- neural network
- combinatorial optimization problems
- memetic algorithm
- special case