A survey on metaheuristics for stochastic combinatorial optimization

@article{Bianchi2008ASO,
  title={A survey on metaheuristics for stochastic combinatorial optimization},
  author={Leonora Bianchi and Marco Dorigo and Luca Maria Gambardella and Walter J. Gutjahr},
  journal={Natural Computing},
  year={2008},
  volume={8},
  pages={239-287}
}
Metaheuristics are general algorithmic frameworks, often nature-inspired, designed to solve complex optimization problems, and they are a growing research area since a few decades. In recent years, metaheuristics are emerging as successful alternatives to more classical approaches also for solving optimization problems that include in their mathematical formulation uncertain, stochastic, and dynamic information. In this paper metaheuristics such as Ant Colony Optimization, Evolutionary… 
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