Prof. Dr. Stefan Voss
Universität Hamburg - Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik

Optimization Software Class Libraries

Just as metaheuristics provide flexible and extensible methods of solving optimization problems, class libraries provide flexible and extensible building blocks for creating software to implement metaheuristics. In this presentation we provide an introduction to optimization software class libraries. We also provide a short summary of some of the more general metaheuristics class libraries and the literature that describes them. We conclude with a detailed example of library design. Applications are provided both on academic problems as well as on applications of our libraries used to solve real-world problems.