We present a state-of-the-art survey of parallel meta-heuristic developments and results,
discuss general design and implementation principles that apply to most meta-heuristic …

We present a state-of-the-art survey of parallel meta-heuristic strategies, developments, and
results. We discuss general design and implementation principles that apply to most meta …

A History of Metaheuristics arXiv:1704.00853v1 [cs.AI] 4 Apr 2017 Page 1 A History of
Metaheuristics ∗ Kenneth Sörensen Marc Sevaux Fred Glover Abstract This chapter …

The first edition of the Handbook of Metaheuristics was published in 2003 under the
editorship of Fred Glover and Gary A. Kochenberger. Given the numerous developments …

Finding exact solutions to many combinatorial optimization problems in busi ness,
engineering, and science still poses a real challenge, despite the impact of recent advances …

Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches with the common goal of automating the
design and tuning of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search problems. The …

This book explains the most prominent and some promising new, general techniques that
combine metaheuristics with other optimization methods. A first introductory chapter reviews …

Solving complex optimization problems with parallel metaheuristics Parallel Metaheuristics
brings together an international group of experts in parallelism and metaheuristics to provide …

This paper performs an unprecedented comparative study of Metaheuristic optimization
frameworks. As criteria for comparison a set of 271 features grouped in 30 characteristics …

Most textbooks on modern heuristics provide the reader with detailed descriptions of the
functionality of single examples like genetic algorithms, genetic programming, tabu search …