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Our favorite metaheuristics metaphor - results of the poll

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The results of our first poll are clear, but surprising! Click on "Read More" to find out what our favorite metaphor is for the development of powerful optimization techniques.

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:49 Read more...
 

Writing metaheuristics articles

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The EU/ME website is looking for contributors who are interested in writing short articles on a regular basis (a minimum of one every six months, but a higher frequency is certainly possible).

 Possible topics include:

  • a short description of a recent paper
  • a successful or unsuccessful real-life implementation of a metaheuristic
  • a discussion of an interesting website
  • a tutorial on a specific method or metaheuristic operator
  • a discussion of an interesting piece of software
  • a book or paper review
  • an opinion
  • an introduction to your lab
  • a short report on a meeting that you organized
  • etc.
If you are interested in becoming a regular contributor, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:53
 

Euro Distinguished Service Medal 2010

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The EDSM (EURO Distinguished Service Medal ) is awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Association of European OR Societies (EURO) and to the profession of OR. The award will be officially delivered during the 2010 EURO Conference (Lisbon, July 11-14, 2010).

The EDSM 2010 will be given to an individual who has served the European OR community and the profession effectively for many years. No currently active officer of EURO (Executive Committee member, EDSM 2010 jury member, Organising and Programme Committees Chairpersons of the EURO 2010 Conference) is eligible.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 09:32 Read more...
 

EDDA Euro doctoral dissertation award 2010

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The EDDA (EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award) is a EURO instrument. It consists of a prize that is awarded at each EURO-K conference. The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding PhD thesis in Operational Research defended in the countries having an OR society that is member of EURO. It will be awarded for the fifth time at the closing session of the EURO-2010 conference (Lisbon, July 11 - 14, 2010).

We invite you to widely disseminate this announcement.

Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:48 Read more...
 

Metaheuristics - a definition

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[From http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaheuristic]

A metaheuristic is a heuristic method for solving a very general class of computational problems by combining user-given black-box procedures — usually heuristics themselves — in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or more robust procedure. The name combines the Greek prefix "meta" ("beyond", here in the sense of "higher level") and "heuristic" (from ευρισκειν, heuriskein, "to find").

Metaheuristics are generally applied to problems for which there is no satisfactory problem-specific algorithm or heuristic; or when it is not practical to implement such a method. Most commonly used metaheuristics are targeted to combinatorial optimization problems, but of course can handle any problem that can be recast in that form, such as solving boolean equations.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 09:50
 

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