The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The...

Scatter Search -- Experiments Using Scatter Search for the Multidemand Multidimensional Knapsack Problem -- A Scatter Search Heuristic for the Fixed-Charge Capacitated Network Design Problem -- Tabu Search -- Tabu Search-Based Metaheuristic Algorithm for Large-scale Set Covering Problems --...

Simulated Annealing -- Tabu Search -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Scatter Search and Path-Relinking: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications -- Genetic Algorithms -- A Modern Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Ant Colony Optimization: Overview and Recent Advances...