How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics | 
| Authors: Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 467
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 3540660615
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.7
EAN: 9783540660613
ASIN: 3540660615
Publication Date: March 1, 2004
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Book Description
This book is the only source that provides comprehensive, current, and detailed information on problem solving using modern heuristics. It covers classic methods of optimization, including dynamic programming, the simplex method, and gradient techniques, as well as recent innovations such as simulated annealing, tabu search, and evolutionary computation. Integrated into the discourse is a series of problems and puzzles to challenge the reader. The book is written in a lively, engaging style and is intended for students and practitioners alike. Anyone who reads and understands the material in the book will be armed with the most powerful problem solving tools currently known.
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 Excellent book pity about the delivery June 3, 2008
Just received the book , excellent book, font a bit small.
But why should I buy a brand new book to get it packaged in too small cardboard panels ?
It is all damaged, I wanted the brand new hard cover book.
I buy a lot of books from AMAZON this is the first time it happens but where
should I complain ????
An excellent book , damaged. I wanted a perfect book undamaged.
In all those years of perfect service from AMAZON all I wanted is get it fixed or at least tell them something is wrong in packaging. But where do you put such a complaint ?
My complaint is simple : if you send a hard cover book with cardboard panels that are for a smaller size book then this book ( mine ) will get
all corners damaged just like an old second hand book.
I must say in over 15 years or more buying books from AMAZON this is my very first problem.
Not formal and that's a good thing January 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes, the book lacks formality. Instead it tackles problems the way smart people really tackle them, and not as some after-the-fact rationalization of the process. It is easy, even fun, to read.
The main purpose of the book is not to show the recipes, although to a degree it does, but it is instead it shows how to pick which recipe to use. For some readers it will document and explain processes they may have already been using unconsciously. For others, there may be some "aha" moments.
 Kind of old stuffs September 22, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The material is alright but it is just kind of old. I can not tell from the original description otherwise, I will
not have bought it.
Optimization Mini-Library February 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best book I have in my optimization library. It is excellent for students and teachers as well. It introduces you to optimization using a simple language, practical examples explained in a very didactical manner. It surveys optimization techniques and categorizes it in a very well-arranged and simplified format. You wouldn't have to read tens of pages with unsightly symbols, messed with subscripts and superscripts to understand a single optimization technique.
It also brings an uplifting introduction to the concept of problem solving. I highly recommend this book to Optimization and Mathematics students and teachers.
Read the book, once you are done, look at the table of contents and give a five minutes lecture on each single title and subtitle, which is what you will be capable of doing at the end.
 It's not the technique, it's the logic behind it July 23, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most evolutionary computation or math books deal with the techniques of solving problems. This book teachs you how to think of a solution for the problem you face, and not what problems are appropriate for the technique in hand.
The logic is that when you do a craft work, you do pick the appropriate tool from your tools box, but you don't grasp a tool and then find a job to go with it, which is the case when you can only handle this tool.
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