- author = "Sean Luke",
- title = "Essentials of Metaheuristics",
- year = "2009",
- publisher = "lulu.com",
- edition = "First",
- note = "Available at https://cs.gmu.edu/$\sim$sean/book/metaheuristics/",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- isbn13 = "978-0-557-14859-2",
-
URL = "
http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/",
-
URL = "http://www.lulu.com/shop/sean-luke/essentials-of-metaheuristics-second-edition/paperback/product-21080150.html",
- abstract = "Gradient Ascent/Descent, Newton's Method, Hill-Climbing, Random Search, Hill Climbing with Random Restarts, Steepest Ascent Hill-Climbing (with and without Replacement), (1+1), (1+lambda), and (1, lambda), Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Iterated Local Search, Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming, The Genetic Algorithm, Elitism, Steady State GAs, The Tree-Style GP Pipeline, Hybrid Evolutionary and Hill-Climbing ({"}Memetic{"}) Algorithms, Scatter Search, Differential Evolution, Particle Swarm Optimization, Island Models, Master-Slave Fitness Assessment, Spatially-Embedded Models, 1-Population, 2-Population, and N-Population Coevolution Methods, Explicit and Implicit Fitness Sharing, Crowding and Deterministic Crowding, Naieve Multiobjective Optimization, Non-Dominated Sorting (NSGA-II), Pareto Strength Methods (SPEA2), Optimization with Hard Constraints, GRASP, Ant Colony Optimization (AS, ACS), Guided Local Search, Model Fitting by Classification (LEM), Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (PBIL, UMDA, cGA, BOA), Policy Optimization (Q-Learning, SAMUEL, ZCS, XCS), Representation Issues:, Vectors, Direct Encoded Graphs, Trees, Genetic Programming, Strongly-Typed Genetic Programming, Cellular Encoding, Lists, Machine-code Genetic Programming, Grammatical Evolution, Rulesets: State-Action Rules, Production Rules, Bloat, Experimental Methodolgy, Sample Text Problems, Resources, Example Course Syllabi",
- notes = "Published by Lulu 14 Dec 2010, Reviewed by \cite{Lones:2011:GPEM}",
-
size = "230 pages.
Second edition, http://tinyurl.com/essentialslulu ISBN 9781300549628, 242 pages, 21 June 2013
Oct 2015 Essentials.pdf contains version 2.2",
