Part I: Contextual Issues -- 1. The Generalized Assignment Problem -- 2. Automatic Design for Matheuristics -- Part II: Metaheuristic Hybrids -- 3. Single Solution Metaheuristics -- 4. Population-Based metaheuristics -- Part III: Original Matheuristics -- 5. Diving Heuristics -- 6. Very...

Metaheuristics support managers in decision-making with robust tools that provide high-quality solutions to important applications in business, engineering, economics, and science in reasonable time frames, but finding exact solutions in these applications still poses a real challenge. However,...