Heuristics

  • Laguna M
  • Martí R
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The word heuristics derives from the Greek heurisken, which means to find or to discover. In general, for a given problem, a heuristic procedure is a collection of rules or steps that guide one to a solution that may or may not be the best (optimal) solution. The rules are usually based on the problem’s characteristics, reasonable processes for searching, plus one’s intuition, hunches, or good ideas. In general, heuristics describes a class of procedures for finding acceptable solutions to a variety of difficult decision problems, that is, procedures for searching for the best solutions to optimization problems. The solution set of most real world optimization problems often include a large or even an infinite number of possible solutions, as well as a criterion or a set of criteria to evaluate the merit of a solution. These problems may be stated as finding the values for a set of decision variables for which one or more objective functions reach a minimum or a maximum...

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Laguna, M., & Martí, R. (2013). Heuristics. In Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (pp. 695–703). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1153-7_1184

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