NP-complete problems, like many of those arising in industry, cannot be approached with exact tools in reasonable time, so, approximation approaches are required. Among such approaches, heuristics and metaheuristics methods are considered as very useful tools to obtain reasonably good solutions in limited time for such complex problems, but their application is far from trivial.
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