Heuristic Methods: Application to Complex Systems

In recent literature a heuristic is a technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to find any exact solution, in this paper, we present a collection of definitions dedicated to explore optimization problems, their methods of resolution and distributed approaches. Next, we describe one of the most famous real-world applications for combinatorial optimization problems; it is the Economic dispatch (ED) problem solving.