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Further Use of Heuristic Methods

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The next section shows not only how a heuristic approach can be employed to solve hard problems but also how an investigation of the mathematical model can lead to a simpler solution technique.

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Lowndes, V., Berry, S., Parkes, C., Bagdasar, O., Popovici, N. (2017). Further Use of Heuristic Methods. In: Berry, S., Lowndes, V., Trovati, M. (eds) Guide to Computational Modelling for Decision Processes. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55417-4_7

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