Keywords: local search, metaheuristics, simulated annealing, tabu search.

Contents. On this page you will find:

• Related Link Collections
• Online Forums
• Topics
• Search & Find
• Bibliography
• People of (virtual) Interest

Related Link Collections

• Neighbourhood Search Techniques (Tim Duncan, Edinburgh)
• Global (and Local) Optimization (A. Neumaier, Wien)
• Michael Trick's Operations Research Page
• e-Optimization

Online Forums

• modern-heuristics, a mailing list distributing conference announcements, news, questions, etc.
• ORCS-L: the Operations Research - Computer Science Interface

Topics

• Simulated Annealing
  • Simulated Annealing Information, Taygeta Scientific Inc. [Monterey];
  • Simulated Annealing Tech Reports [Kolli - CMU];
  • anneal-list by thread;
  • Adaptive Simulated Annealing (Lester Ingber);
  • Parallel Simulated Annealing (Allisen Lee & Dyke Stiles, Utah State);
  • Parallel Simulated Annealing Library (Georg Kliewer, Paderborn);
  • COSA: Cooperative Simulated Annealing (Oliver Wendt, Frankfurt);
  • Ensemble Based Simulated Annealing (Richard Frost, San Diego)
• Genetic Algorithms
  • The Genetic Algorithms Archive (Alan C. Schultz, Naval Res. Lab.);
  • Nova Genetica - Genetic Algorithm links and information;
  • Memetic Algorithms (Moscato, La Plata)
• Reactive Search (R. Battiti, Trento)
• GRASP - Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (M.G.C. Resende, AT&T)
• Ant Colony Optimization (Marco Dorigo, Bruxelles)
• Constraint Programming
• HOTFRAME - Heuristic OpTimization FRAMEwork (Andreas Fink & Stefan Voß, TU Braunschweig)
• Computational Complexity
  • ECCC - Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (Trier);
  • A compendium of NP optimization problems (P. Crescenzi and V. Kann)
  • Parameterized Complexity Home Page (M.T. Hallett and H.T. Wareham)

Search & Find ...

• ... People:
  • Trick's Operations Research People directory
  • Operations Research Directory (Takriti, Mathematical Programming Society)
  • AMS - SIAM - MAA Combined Membership List
  • Database of Operations Researchers in Italy (CIRO)
  • OPT-NET Memberlist (DMV-SIGOPT)
  • INFORMS Membership Database
  • Theoretical Computer Science Virtual Address Book (ACM SIGACT)
• ... Bibliographic Data:
  • Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931-1996 (FIZ, Karlsruhe)
  • Collection of CS Bibliographies (Achilles, Karlsruhe)
  • Annual Comprehensive Index Bibliographic Database (INFORMS)
• ... Journals:
  • Graph Theory Journals (D.P. Sanders)
  • Discrete Math Journals (DMV-FG DM)
  • Operations Research Journals
  • Computer Science Journals (DB & LP, Uni Trier)
• ... Conferences:
  • The WWW Virtual Library: Conferences by Jürgen Wagner (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering);
  • Conference CFPs, Programs, Schools, by GI-Fachgruppe parallele und verteilte Algorithmen (Paderborn);
  • Netlib Conferences Database.
  • 2nd Metaheuristics International Conference - MIC'97
  • 3rd Metaheuristics International Conference - MIC'99
  • 6th INFORMS's Conference on Computer Science and Operations Research: Recent Advances in the Interface, January 7-9, 1998, at Monterey CA
  • PATAT'97, The 2nd international conference on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling
  • Algorithms and Experiments - ALEX'98
  • APPROX'98 - 1st International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, 18 - 19 July 1998, University of Aalborg, Denmark
  • ECCO - European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization

Bibliography

People

• Aarts, Emile (Eindhoven)
• Arkin, Esther M. (Stony Brook)
• Battiti, Roberto (Trento)
• Beasley, J.E. (Imperial College)
• Duncan, Tim (Edinburgh)
• Fink, Andreas (Braunschweig)
• Frost, Richard (San Diego)
• Glover, Fred (Boulder)
• Greening, Dan R. (Cupertino, CA)
• Halldorsson, Magnus M. (Reykjavik)
• Hassin, Refael (Tel Aviv)
• Hertz, Alain (Lausanne)
• Hjorring, Curt (Queensland & Göteborg)
• Jonker, Roy (Vancouver)
• Krishnamoorthy, Mohan (Melbourne)
• Laporte, Gilbert (Montreal)
• Martello, Silvano (Bologna)
• Moscato, Pablo (La Plata)
• Osman, Ibrahim (Kent)
• Rego, César (Porto)
• Resende, Mauricio G.C. (AT&T)
• Ribeiro, Celso Carneiro (Rio de Janeiro)
• Schneider, Johannes (Regensburg)
• Taillard, Éric (Lugano)
• Telfar, Grant (Wellington)
• Tovey, Craig (Georgia Tech) [E-mail]
• Voß, Stefan (Braunschweig)
• De Werra, Dominique (Lausanne)
• Wendt, Oliver (Frankfurt)
• Zachariasen, Martin (Kobenhavn)