Authors:Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: heuristics, modern, solve
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 2004-12-08
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3540224947
ISBN-13: 9783540224945

This book is the only source that provides comprehensive, current, and correct information on problem solving using modern heuristics. It covers classic methods of optimization, including dynamic programming, the simplex method, and gradient techniques, as well as recent innovations such as simulated annealing, tabu search, and evolutionary computation. Integrated into the discourse is a series of problems and puzzles to challenge the reader. The book is written in a lively, engaging style and is intended for students and practitioners alike. Anyone who reads and understands the material in th

Authors:Marco, Aurelio de Carvalho, Semyon, D. Savransky, Tz
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: problems, solving, heuristics
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2004-11-08
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1411616898
ISBN-13: 9781411616899

Creative solutions are easily recognizable, after they have been created. But how to attain them? This book is about a promising approach to creative problem solving - the use of heuristics. The main purpose of an heuristic is to make problem solving more efficient, by making past experience - which could guide the generation of new solutions - promptly available. The heuristic approach is widely used in TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), which is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. Successful results of using heuristics have been reported by companies such as ABB, Bosch, Gen

Authors:Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: reports, workshop, dahlem, law, heuristics
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0262072750
ISBN-13: 9780262072755

In recent decades, the economists’ concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers in "fast and frugal heuristics" propose another approach: using certain formulations or general principles (heuristics) to help navigate in an environment that is not a well-ordered setting with an occasional disturbance, as described in the language of rational choice, but instead is fundamentally

Authors:Ibrahim H. Osman, James P. Kelly,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, theory, heuristics, meta
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 1996-03-31
List price: $339.00
ISBN-10: 0792397002
ISBN-13: 9780792397007

Meta-heuristics have developed dramatically since their inception in the early 1980s. They have had widespread success in attacking a variety of practical and difficult combinatorial optimization problems. These families of approaches include, but are not limited to greedy random adaptive search procedures, genetic algorithms, problem-space search, neural networks, simulated annealing, tabu search, threshold algorithms, and their hybrids. They incorporate concepts based on biological evolution, intelligent problem solving, mathematical and physical sciences, nervous systems, and stati

Author: Javier Garzas
Publisher: IGI Global
Keywords: heuristics, practices, principles, knowledge, oriented, design, object
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2006-07-27
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 1591408962
ISBN-13: 9781591408963

In order to properly understand a field, a researcher has to first understand the accumulated knowledge of that field. Micro-architectural design has accumulated knowledge elements that are clearly defined. These elements, such as design patterns, are properly differentiated and generally understood, but other elements such as heuristics, best practices, and others are just vague concepts. Object-Oriented Design Knowledge: Principles, Heuristics and Best Practices provides a unified and global vision about the lesser-defined areas of micro-architectural design knowledge, exposing the

Author: Lev Nakhmanovich Landa
Publisher: Educational Technology Pubns
Keywords: heuristics, education, algorithmization, cybernetics, regulation, control, instructional
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1976-06
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0877780870
ISBN-13: 9780877780878

Authors:Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: smart, heuristics, simple
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2000-09
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0195143817
ISBN-13: 9780195143812

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world, we need a different, more psychologically plausible notion of rationality, and this book provides it. It is about fast and frugal heuristics--simple rules for making decisions when time is pressing an