ParadisEO-MO: from fitness landscape analysis to efficient local search algorithms

Optimization by Simulated Annealing

Scott Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, M.P. Vecchi · Science · 1983 · 44K citations

Numerical Analysis, Large-scale Global Optimization, Computational Science +15

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

Scientific American · 1979 · 7.8K citations

Evolution, Natural Sciences, Evolutionary Biology +5

Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity.

David Johnson, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz · American Mathematical Monthly · 1984 · 6K citations

Mathematical Programming, Engineering, Algorithm Design +15

Tabu Search—Part II

Fred Glover · INFORMS Journal on Computing · 1990 · 5.6K citations

Search Optimization, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Programming +18

Variable neighborhood search

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Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Mining +3