Tabu Search

Tabu search (TS) is an iterative procedure designed for the solution of optimization problems. TS was invented by Glover and has been used to solve a wide range of hard optimization problems such as job shop scheduling, graph colouring (related), the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and the capacitated arc routing problem. A good description of the technique can be found here or here. An overview of the TS approach to scheduling problems can be found in:

J. W. Barnes, M. Laguna and F. Glover
     Intelligent Scheduling Systems, D. E. Brown and W. T. Scherer (Eds.),
     Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 101-127 (1995).

TS has been applied to the network design problem. For a description of the technique and its application to a number of problem domains read Tabu Search, the book. A large number of references to TS can be found here. Battiti's description of Reactive Tabu Search (RTS) can be found here. A number of TS papers related to telecommunications can be found here. Laguna's publications on TS can be found here. A thesis comparing various heuristic search techniques for object recognition can be found here.

Publications 

  1. Fred Glover and Manuel Laguna, Tabu Search, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, ISBN 0-7923-9965-X, July 1997, 408 pp.
  2. The Annals of Operational Research frequently publishes articles on TS.
Researchers
  1. Fred Glover, principal researcher at University of Colorado.
  2. Manuel Laguna, principal researcher at University of Colorado.
  3. James Kelly, principal researcher at University of Colorado.
  4. Ross James, researcher at University of Canterbury, NZ.
  5. Anthony Vannelli, researcher at the University of Waterloo, CA.
  6. Chae Y. Lee, researcher at KAIST, Korea
  7. Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy.
  8. Roland Hübscher, post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
  9. Eric Taillard, ant search, tabu search applied to scheduling and routing problems.
  10. Jiefeng Xu, several problem domains of interest.
  11. Yves Rochat, doing a PhD looking at vehicle routing, see his TS demo.
  12. Curt Hjorring, did a PhD looking at vehicle routing comparing GA, TS.
  13. Giorgio Giacinto, a PhD student looking at classification/pattern recognition problems.
  14. Daniel Kobler, a PhD student at EPFL.
  15. Martin Zachariasen, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Groups
  1. University of Colorado Business School, USA.
  2. University of Trento, Italy
  3. (EPFL) Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland
  4. (IDSIA) Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Lugano, Switzerland
  5. Politechnico of Milan, Italy
  6. University of East Anglia, Mathematical Algorithms Group (MAG)
Links
  1. Bibliography including TS references at the University of East Anglia, England
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