The Attribute Based Hill Climber

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Simulated annealing: theory and applications.

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TSPLIB—A Traveling Salesman Problem Library

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Robust taboo search for the quadratic assignment problem

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Genetic Algorithms for the Travelling Salesman Problem: A Review of Representations and Operators

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