Title
Principles of Stochastic Local Search
Abstract
We set up a general generic framework for local search algorithms. Then we show in this generic setting how heuristic, problem-specific information can be used to improve the success probability of local search by focussing the search process on specific neighbor states. Our main contribution is a result which states that stochastic local search using restarts has a provable complexity advantage compared to deterministic local search. An important side aspect is the insight that restarting (starting the search process all over, not using any information computed before) is a useful concept which was mostly ignored before.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-73554-0_17
Unconventional Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
main contribution,restart,general generic framework,problemspecific information,provable complexity advantage,local search algorithm,search process,meta-algorithmics.,important side aspect,generic setting,heuristic information,stochastic local search,local search
Mathematical optimization,Incremental heuristic search,Guided Local Search,Beam search,Local search (optimization),Best-first search,Iterated local search,Mathematics,Tabu search,Iterative deepening depth-first search
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4618
0302-9743
3-540-73553-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.48
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Uwe Schöning1998105.69