Handbook of Metaheuristics

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
 Simulated Annealing: From Basics to Applications  (Daniel Delahaye, Supatcha Chaimatanan, Marcel Mongeau)....Pages 1-35
 Tabu Search  (Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin)....Pages 37-55
 Variable Neighborhood Search  (Pierre Hansen, Nenad Mladenović, Jack Brimberg, José A. Moreno Pérez)....Pages 57-97
 Large Neighborhood Search  (David Pisinger, Stefan Ropke)....Pages 99-127
 Iterated Local Search: Framework and Applications  (Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, Olivier C. Martin, Thomas Stützle)....Pages 129-168
 Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures: Advances and Extensions  (Mauricio G. C. Resende, Celso C. Ribeiro)....Pages 169-220
 Intelligent Multi-Start Methods  (Rafael Martí, Ricardo Aceves, Maria Teresa León, Jose M. Moreno-Vega, Abraham Duarte)....Pages 221-243
 Next Generation Genetic Algorithms: A User’s Guide and Tutorial  (Darrell Whitley)....Pages 245-274
 An Accelerated Introduction to Memetic Algorithms  (Pablo Moscato, Carlos Cotta)....Pages 275-309
 Ant Colony Optimization: Overview and Recent Advances  (Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle)....Pages 311-351
 Swarm Intelligence  (Xiaodong Li, Maurice Clerc)....Pages 353-384
 Metaheuristic Hybrids  (Günther R. Raidl, Jakob Puchinger, Christian Blum)....Pages 385-417
 Parallel Metaheuristics and Cooperative Search  (Teodor Crainic)....Pages 419-451
 A Classification of Hyper-Heuristic Approaches: Revisited  (Edmund K. Burke, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall, Gabriela Ochoa, Ender Özcan, John R. Woodward)....Pages 453-477
 Reactive Search Optimization: Learning While Optimizing  (Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Andrea Mariello)....Pages 479-511
 Stochastic Search in Metaheuristics  (Walter J. Gutjahr, Roberto Montemanni)....Pages 513-540
 Automated Design of Metaheuristic Algorithms  (Thomas Stützle, Manuel López-Ibáñez)....Pages 541-579
 Computational Comparison of Metaheuristics  (John Silberholz, Bruce Golden, Swati Gupta, Xingyin Wang)....Pages 581-604