Tabu search metaheuristics for electromagnetic problems optimization in continuous domains

This paper presents a Tabu Search based strategy which is applied to optimi ze the objective function associated with the design of a solenoids system. The strategies used to apply Tabu Search in a continuous domain are develop ed without increasing computational effort with respect to the correspondin g discrete problem. Algorithms developed-for discrete problems used to self-tune Tabu Search pa rameters have also been applied, achieving improvements in terms of the qua lity of the solutions.