Simulated Annealing -- Tabu Search -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Scatter Search and Path-Relinking: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications -- Genetic Algorithms -- A Modern Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Ant Colony Optimization: Overview and Recent Advances...

The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The...

Bernard Gendron and Operations Research -- Methodological Developments -- Variable Neighbourhood Search with Dynamic Exploration for the Set Union Knapsack Problem -- Common-Flow Formulations for the Diameter Constrained Spanning Tree Problem -- Models and Methods for Two-Level Uncapacitated...