Mirko Maischberger – Optimization Online

Differerential Evolution methods based on local searches

Published: 2012/12/12

Global Optimization, Stochastic Approaches disk and sphere packing, global optimization, memetic algorithms, population-based methods

In this paper we analyze the behavior of a quite standard Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm applied to the objective function transformed by means of local searches. First some surprising results are presented which concern the application of this method to standard test functions. Later we introduce an application to disk- and to sphere-packing problems, two … Read more

COIN-OR METSlib: a Metaheuristics Framework in Modern C++.

Published: 2011/09/23

Mirko Maischberger

Meta Heuristics, Nonlinear Optimization, Problem Solving Environments combinatorial optimization, local search, metaheuristics, simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighborhood search

The document describes COIN-OR METSlib, a C++ framework for local search based metaheuristics. METSlib has been used to implement a massively parallel VRP algorithm, a state of the art Vertex Coloring Problem solver, a Timetabling software, and in many other projects. ArticleDownload View PDF