Faculty: Michel Toulouse
Description:
Meta-heuristics such as tabu search, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and many more,
are a set of general purpose search heuristics. Cooperative search is a parallelization technique
of these heuristics in which many threads are running independently while also feeding each other
with information about the search space. These techniques are used to find solutions to NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problems, for which there exists no tractable algorithms.