A novel adaptive search strategy of intensification and diversification in tabu search

Intensification and diversification are two highly important components of tabu search. At many cases, these two components are also conflicting between them. It is worthy of being studied that how to harmonize this conflict. Aiming at this problem, a novel adaptive search strategy of intensification and diversification was proposed in this paper. Taking traveling salesman problem as samples, many experiments was investigated. The results shows: this strategy is feasible and effective.