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These approaches can be useful when the problem to be solved is large and/or complex, when a timely good solution is considered to be better than a late optimal solution.
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Lowndes, V., Berry, S. (2017). Heuristic Techniques in Optimisation. In: Berry, S., Lowndes, V., Trovati, M. (eds) Guide to Computational Modelling for Decision Processes. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55417-4_4
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