Roman Słowiński and His Research Program: Intelligent Decision Support Systems Between Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence -- Roman’s Scientific Trajectory: A Retrospective with an Emphasis on the Beginning -- ELECTRE Methods: A Survey on Roman Słowiński Contributions -- How...

This book provides the reader with a broad coverage of the concepts, themes and instrumentalities of this important and evolving area of optimization. In doing so, the editors hope to encourage an even wider adoption of metaheuristic methods for assisting in problem solving, and to stimulate...