Introduction -- Classical Techniques -- Integer Programming -- Genetic Algorithms -- Scatter Search -- Genetic Programming -- Artificial Immune Systems -- Swarm Intelligence -- Tabu Search -- Simulated Annealing -- GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures -- Variable Neighborhood...

This paper presents a hybrid multi-objective model that combines integer programming (IP) and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) to deal with highly-constrained nurse rostering problems in modern hospital environments. An IP is first used to solve the subproblem which includes the full set of...

This paper presents a state transition based formal framework for a new search method, called Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Recreate, which tries to learn and adapt to the changing environments during the search process. It improves the performance of the original Ruin and Recreate principle...