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Handbook of Metaheuristics

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 146))

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This chapter presents the fundamental concepts of tabu search (TS) in a tutorial fashion. Special emphasis is put on showing the relationships with classical local search methods and on the basic elements of any TS heuristic, namely the definition of the search space, the neighborhood structure, and the search memory. Other sections cover other important concepts such as search intensification and diversification and provide references to significant work on TS. Recent advances in TS are also briefly discussed.

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The authors are grateful to the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council for their financial support. The authors also wish to thank Fred Glover for his insightful comments on an earlier version of this chapter.

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    Michel Gendreau

  2. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, and Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les réseaux d’entreprise, la logistique et le transport, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Jean-Yves Potvin

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Gendreau, M., Potvin, JY. (2010). Tabu Search. In: Gendreau, M., Potvin, JY. (eds) Handbook of Metaheuristics. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 146. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1665-5_2

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