Variable Neighborhood Search: 6th International Conference, ICVNS 2018, Sithonia, Greece, October 4–7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 Improved Variable Neighbourhood Search Heuristic for Quartet Clustering  (Sergio Consoli, Jan Korst, Steffen Pauws, Gijs Geleijnse)....Pages 1-12
 On the k-Medoids Model for Semi-supervised Clustering  (Rodrigo Randel, Daniel Aloise, Nenad Mladenović, Pierre Hansen)....Pages 13-27
 Complexity and Heuristics for the Max Cut-Clique Problem  (Mathias Bourel, Eduardo Canale, Franco Robledo, Pablo Romero, Luis Stábile)....Pages 28-40
 A VNS Approach to Solve Multi-level Capacitated Lotsizing Problem with Backlogging  (Jerzy Duda, Adam Stawowy)....Pages 41-51
 How to Locate Disperse Obnoxious Facility Centers?  (Jesús Sánchez-Oro, J. Manuel Colmenar, Enrique García-Galán, Ana D. López-Sánchez)....Pages 52-63
 Basic VNS Algorithms for Solving the Pollution Location Inventory Routing Problem  (Panagiotis Karakostas, Angelo Sifaleras, Michael C. Georgiadis)....Pages 64-76
 Less Is More: The Neighborhood Guided Evolution Strategies Convergence on Some Classic Neighborhood Operators  (Vitor Nazário Coelho, Igor Machado Coelho, Nenad Mladenović, Helena Ramalhinho, Luiz Satoru Ochi, Frederico G. Guimarães et al.)....Pages 77-88
 New VNS Variants for the Online Order Batching Problem  (Sergio Gil-Borrás, Eduardo G. Pardo, Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Abraham Duarte)....Pages 89-100
 An Adaptive VNS and Skewed GVNS Approaches for School Timetabling Problems  (Ulisses Rezende Teixeira, Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza, Sérgio Ricardo de Souza, Vitor Nazário Coelho)....Pages 101-113
 Finding Balanced Bicliques in Bipartite Graphs Using Variable Neighborhood Search  (Juan David Quintana, Jesús Sánchez-Oro, Abraham Duarte)....Pages 114-124
 General Variable Neighborhood Search for Scheduling Heterogeneous Vehicles in Agriculture  (Ana Anokić, Zorica Stanimirović, Đorđe Stakić, Tatjana Davidović)....Pages 125-140
 Detecting Weak Points in Networks Using Variable Neighborhood Search  (Sergio Pérez-Peló, Jesús Sánchez-Oro, Abraham Duarte)....Pages 141-151
 A Variable Neighborhood Search with Integer Programming for the Zero-One Multiple-Choice Knapsack Problem with Setup  (Yassine Adouani, Bassem Jarboui, Malek Masmoudi)....Pages 152-166
 A VNS-Based Algorithm with Adaptive Local Search for Solving the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem  (Sinaide Nunes Bezerra, Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza, Sérgio Ricardo de Souza, Vitor Nazário Coelho)....Pages 167-181
 Skewed Variable Neighborhood Search Method for the Weighted Generalized Regenerator Location Problem  (Lazar Mrkela, Zorica Stanimirović)....Pages 182-201
 Using a Variable Neighborhood Search to Solve the Single Processor Scheduling Problem with Time Restrictions  (Rachid Benmansour, Oliver Braun, Saïd Hanafi, Nenad Mladenovic)....Pages 202-215
 An Evolutionary Variable Neighborhood Descent for Addressing an Electric VRP Variant  (Dhekra Rezgui, Hend Bouziri, Wassila Aggoune-Mtalaa, Jouhaina Chaouachi Siala)....Pages 216-231
 A Variable Neighborhood Descent Heuristic for the Multi-quay Berth Allocation and Crane Assignment Problem Under Availability Constraints  (Issam Krimi, Afaf Aloullal, Rachid Benmansour, Abdessamad Ait El Cadi, Laurent Deshayes, David Duvivier)....Pages 232-242
 A Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for Solving the Multidimensional Multi-Way Number Partitioning Problem  (Alexandre Frias Faria, Sérgio Ricardo de Souza, Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza, Carlos Alexandre Silva, Vitor Nazário Coelho)....Pages 243-258
 A General Variable Neighborhood Search with Mixed VND for the multi-Vehicle multi-Covering Tour Problem  (Manel Kammoun, Houda Derbel, Bassem Jarboui)....Pages 259-273
 A Hybrid Firefly - VNS Algorithm for the Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem  (Andromachi Taxidou, Ioannis Karafyllidis, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis, Athanasios Migdalas)....Pages 274-286
 Studying the Impact of Perturbation Methods on the Efficiency of GVNS for the ATSP  (Christos Papalitsas, Theodore Andronikos, Panagiotis Karakostas)....Pages 287-302
 A GVNS Algorithm to Solve VRP with Optional Visits  (Manel Kammoun, Houda Derbel, Bassem Jarboui)....Pages 303-314
Back Matter ....Pages 315-315