The success of metaheuristics on hard single-objective optimization problems is well recognized today. Many real … Metaheuristics in December 2002. It is the first book which considers simultaneously various metaheuristics and various kind of …. Metaheuristics used are genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, simulated annealing, scatter search, etc. Problems concern …

-- Metaheuristics for tourist trip planning / Pieter Vansteenwegen [and others] -- Solving fuzzy multi-item economic order quantity … toll pricing in road networks with direct search metaheuristics / Loukas Dimitriou and Theodore Tsekeris -- Scatter search … problem / Jens Czogalla and Andreas Fink -- Metaheuristics for the index tracking problem / Giacomo di Tollo and Dietmar …

Parallel Cooperative Metaheuristics -- Algorithm Tuning, Algorithm Design and Software Tools -- Using Experimental Design to … Algorithm for Large-scale Set Covering Problems -- Log-Truck Scheduling with a Tabu Search Strategy -- Nature-inspired methods …-Relinking for the Tsp -- Using a Randomised Iterative Improvement Algorithm with Composite Neighbourhood Structures for the …

Variable Toll Pricing in Road Networks with Direct Search Meta-Heuristics -- Scatter Search for locating a treatment plant and … -- Metaheuristics for the Index Tracking Problem -- A Hybrid Algorithm for Vehicle Routing of Less-Than-Truckload Carriers. …A Bicriteria Traveling Salesman Problem with Sequence Priorities -- Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning -- Solving …

Optimization Theory and Algorithms -- On the Asymptotic Behavior of a System of Steepest Descent Equations Coupled by a … Methods for Optimal Control with Binary Control Functions Applied to a Lotka-Volterra Type Fishing Problem -- Game Theory … -- Solving Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints with Nonlinear Solvers -- A Filter Algorithm and Other NLP …