Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4638 Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms Designing,Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium, September 6-8, 2007. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The topics include Methodological developments, behavior of SLS algorithms, search space analysis, algorithm performance, tuning procedures, AI/OR techniques and dynamic behaviour