Metaheuristic Class Libraries
Andréas Fink, Stefan Voß, David L. Woodruff · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Just as metaheuristics provide flexible and extensible methods of solving optimization problems, class libraries provide flexible and extensible building blocks for creating software to implement metaheuristics. In this chapter we provide a brief introduction to the class libraries and object oriented programming techniques. We also provide a short summary of some of the more general metaheuristics class libraries and the literature that describes them. We conclude with a detailed example of library design.