Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications by Nelishia Pillay

Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications by Nelishia Pillay

This introduction to the field of hyper-heuristics presents the required foundations and tools and illustrates some of their applications. The authors organized the 13 chapters into three parts. The first, hyper-heuristic fundamentals and theory, provides an overview of selection constructive, selection perturbative, generation constructive and generation perturbative hyper-heuristics, and then a formal definition of hyper-heuristics. The chapters in the second part of the book examine applications of hyper-heuristics in vehicle routing, nurse rostering, packing and examination timetabling. The third part of the book presents advanced topics and then a summary of the field and future research directions. Finally the appendices offer details of the HyFlex framework and the EvoHyp toolkit, and then the definition, problem model and constraints for the most tested combinatorial optimization problems. 

The book will be of value to graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.

Nelishia Pillay is a professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She holds the Multichoice Joint-Chair in Machine Learning and SARChI Chair in Artificial Intelligence. She is chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications, IEEE Task Force on Hyper-Heuristics and the IEEE Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection. Her research areas include hyper-heuristics, automated design of machine learning and search techniques, combinatorial optimization, genetic programming, genetic algorithms and deep learning. These are the focus areas of the NICOG (Nature-Inspired Computing Optimization) research group which she has established.

Rong Qu is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Her research interests include the modeling and optimisation of combinatorial optimisation problems in optimisation research and artificial intelligence. These include evolutionary algorithms, mathematical programming and metaheuristics integrated with machine learning to automate the design of intelligent algorithms. Dr. Qu is an associated editor at IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Operational Research Society and PeerJ Computer Science. She is a Senior IEEE Member since 2012 and the Vice-Chair of Evolutionary Computation Task Committee and Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

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ISBN 13	9783030072063
ISBN 10	3030072061
Title	Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications
Author	Nelishia Pillay
Series	Natural Computing Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published	2019-01-31
Number of pages	130
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