Recent Advances for the Quadratic Assignment Problem with Special Emphasis on Instances that are Difficult for Meta-Heuristic Methods

Practical Nonparametric Statistics

David J. Groggel, W. J. Conover · Technometrics · 2000 · 11.1K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +13

Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem

Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 1997 · 8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +16

Variable neighborhood search

Nenad Mladenović, Pierre Hansen · Computers & Operations Research · 1997 · 4.1K citations

Distributed Optimization by Ant Colonies

Alberto Colorni, Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo et al. · 1992 · 2.6K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +12

Variable neighborhood search: Principles and applications

Pierre Hansen, Nenad Mladenović · European Journal of Operational Research · 2001 · 1.9K citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Optimization +9