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A Star-Shaped Diversification Approach in Tabu Search

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Diversification is among the most versatile strategic components of tabu search. In this paper we propose and investigate a star-shaped approach providing multiple disjoint search trajectories scattering over the solution space. The approach is based on a dynamic strategy that explicitly incorporates logical interdependencies between multiple lists representing these trajectories. Numerical results are presented for some benchmark instances derived from the problem of balancing hydraulic turbine runners, which may be formulated as a quadratic assignment problem.

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Sondergeld, L., Voß, S. (1996). A Star-Shaped Diversification Approach in Tabu Search. In: Osman, I.H., Kelly, J.P. (eds) Meta-Heuristics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1361-8_29

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