New book by Prof. Tomassini - News

New book by Prof. Tomassini Marco Tomassini, Professor Emeritus at HEC Lausanne (University of Lausanne) and an expert in game theory, has just published his book "Metaheuristics: an introduction to metaheuristics for optimization". Co-authored with Professor Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva), the book is based on the lectures given by the two researchers in their respective institutions. It is aimed at students reaching the end of their Bachelor's degree or starting their Master's in computer science and applied computer science, as well as people working in other disciplines, who want to understand the principles of metaheuristics for optimization. About the book Published by Presses Universitaires de Perpignan (PUP) in France, the book is aimed, in particular, at readers who want to familiarize themselves with the topic through an academic text illustrated with simple examples. It addresses the basic principles of metaheuristics and explains the "why and how it works" of traditional metaheuristics (tabu, annealing, ant colony, evolutionary algorithms, etc. It also discusses the convergence of methods, their performance and phase transitions, as well as the structure of search spaces. Both authors try to highlight the mechanisms that are common to metaheuristics, focusing primarily on understanding rather than use.