Course Objectives
- To introduce the basics of heuristic optimization
- To develop problem specific heuristic algorithms
- To code heuristic algorithms
Topics
- Fundamentals of heuristic optimization
- Simulated Annealing
- Tabu search
- Fundamentals of Genetic Algorithm
- Genetic Algorithm and Applications
- Swarm Optimization
- Ant-colony optimization
- Fundamentals Multi-objective optimization
- Multi-objective optimization and applications
- Constrained optimization
- Performance measurement of algorithms
