Handbook of Metaheuristics

Scatter Search and Path Relinking: Advances and Applications -- An Introduction to Tabu Search -- Genetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming: Automatic Synthesis of Topologies and Numerical Parameters -- A Gentle Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Guided Local Search -- Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures -- The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic: Algorithms, Applications, and Advances -- The Theory and Practice of Simulated Annealing -- Iterated Local Search -- Multi-Start Methods -- Local Search and Constraint Programming -- Constraint Satisfaction -- Artificial Neural Networks for Combinatorial Optimization -- Hyper-Heuristics: An Emerging Direction in Modern Search Technology -- Parallel Strategies for Meta-Heuristics -- Metaheuristic Class Libraries -- Asynchronous Teams.