Schedule
Fall 2013, first quarter; First class: September 2, 2013; Last class: October 8, 2013
Introductions
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Date | Topic and slides | Literature |
06.06 | Course presentation | |
02.09 | Course introduction, Motivations, Combinatorial Optimization, Methods. | [B1 appA,B; B5 ch2; L1] [ Review ] |
03.09 | Models and Search. Construction Heuristics and Local Search: basic ideas | [B2 ch4,5, S1-S4] |
09.09 | Working tools and Solver Systems. Experimental Analysis | [A1, A2] |
10.09 | Construction Heuristics. SAT | [V1] |
16.09 | Construction Heuristics for TSP | [A3 sc.1-4, B6 ch5] |
17.09 | Local Search: Components, Basic Algorithms, Examples | [B1 ch.1,2,6; B4 ch1-2] |
23.09 | Local Search: Components | |
24.09 | Construction Heuristics for GCP Stochastic Local Search & Metaheuristics | [B1 ch.7] [A4, A5] [B4] |
30.09 | Exercises: SMTWT, MaxIndep, Parallel Machines, Steiner Tree | [B1 ch2-3] [V2-9] |
01.10 | Local Search: Efficiency issues, SAT, SMTWT, TSP. Metaheuristics: Evolutionary Algorithms Metaheuristics: Ant Colony Optimization | [B1 ch2] [A3] [A6] [B3 sec2.4; B4] [B4] |
07.10 | Neighborhoods and Landscapes Very Large Scale Neighborhoods (Statistical Methods for Configuration and Tuning) | [B1 ch1] [A7] [B1 ch4-6] [A8] [A9] |
08.10 | (in U49D) Examples & Exercises | [A10, A11, B1 ch2] |
21.10 | Question Time | |
Resources
Literature
Further Reading:
Books:
- [B2] S. Russell and P. Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. (Part II, chp. 3,4,6). Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 2010.
- [B3] P.V. Hentenryck and L. Michel. Constraint-Based Local Search. The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 2005. (In BlackBoard)
- [B4] H. Hoos and
T. Stuetzle, Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications, 2005, Morgan Kaufmann
- [B5] E.K. Burke, G. Kendal, Search methodologies: introductory tutorials in optimization and decision support techniques 2005,
Springer, New York
- [B6] M. de Berg, O. Cheong, M. van Kreveld and M. Overmars. Chapter 5: Orthogonal Range Searching. Computational Geometry, Springer Berlin
Heidelberg, 2008 , 95-120
- [B7] D.E. Knuth, T. Larrabee and P.M. Roberts. Mathematical writing. Mathematical Association of America, 1989
Articles:
- [A1] D.P. Bertsekas, J.N. Tsitsiklis and
C. Wu. Rollout Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization. Journal of Heuristics, 1997, 3(3),
245-262
- [A2] P.S. Ow and T.E. Morton. Filtered beam search in scheduling. International Journal of Production Research, 1988, 26(1) , 35-62
- [A3] J.J. Bentley. Fast Algorithms for Geometric Traveling Salesman Problems. ORSA Journal on Computing, 1992, vol. 4, issue 4, pp. 387-411.
- [A4] H.H. Hoos and E. Tsang. Local Search Methods. Chapter 5, In
F. Rossi, P.V. Beek and T. Walsh (ed.). Handbook of Constraint
Programming, Elsevier, 2006 (In BlackBoard)
- [A5] P. Hansen and N. Mladenovic
Variable Neighborhood Search: Principles and Applications (2001) European
Journal of Operational Research, 130(3), 449–467.
- [A6] C. Reeves. Genetic Algorithms. Chp. 3 In F. Glover and
G. Kochenberger (eds.). Handbook of Metaheuristics, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Norwell, MA, USA, 2002, 57, 55-82 (In BlackBoard)
- [A9] M. Birattari, T. Stuetzle, L. Paquete, K. Varrentrapp (2002). A racing algorithm for configuring metaheuristics. Proceedings of the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002),
pp. 11-18, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, New York.
Animations, Visualizations, Games
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