Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dual sequence simulated annealing with round-robin approach for university course timetabling / Salwani Abdullah, Khalid Shaker, Barry McCollum, and Paul McMullan -- Heuristic and exact methods for the discrete (r / p)-centroid problem / Ekaterina Alekseeva, Nina Kochetova, Yury Kochetov, and Alexandr Plyasunov -- On the benefit of sub-optimality within the divide-and-evolve scheme / Jacques Bibai, Pierre Savéant, Marc Schoenauer, and Vincent Vidal -- A real-integer-discrete-coded differential evolution algorithm : a preliminary study / Dilip Datta and José Rui Figueira -- Fitness distance correlation and search space analysis for permutation based problems / Botond Draskoczy -- A genetic algorithm to minimize chromatic entropy / Greg Durrett, Muriel Médard, and Una-May O'Reilly -- Evolutionary approaches to the three-dimensional multi-pipe routing problem : a comparative study using direct encodings / Marcus Furuholmen, Kyrre Glette, Mats Hovin, and Jim Torresen -- A tabu search heuristic for point coverage, sink location, and data routing in wireless sensor networks / Evren Güney, İ. Kuban Altınel, Necati Aras, and Cem Ersoy -- Ant colony optimization for tree decompositions / Thomas Hammerl and Nysret Musliu -- Iterated local search with path relinking for solving parallel machines scheduling problem with resource-assignable sequence dependent setup times / Edmar Hell Kampke, José Elias Claudio Arroyo, and André Gustavo Santos -- Enhancing a tabu algorithm for approximate graph matching by using similarity measures / Segla Kpodjedo, Philippe Galinier, and Giulio Antoniol -- Characterizing fault-tolerance of genetic algorithms in desktop grid systems / Daniel Lombraña González, Juan Luís Jiménez Laredo, Francisco Fernández de Vega, and Juan Julián Merelo Guervós -- The office-space-allocation problem in strongly hierarchized organizations / Rui Lopes and Daniela Girimonte -- A study of memetic search with multi-parent combination for UBQP / Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao, and Fred Glover -- Bicriteria scheduling problem on the two-machine flowshop using simulated annealing / Mohammad Mesgarpour, Nureddin Kirkavak, and Hakan Ozaktas -- A memetic algorithm for workforce distribution in dynamic multi-skill call centres / David Millán-Ruiz and J. Ignacio Hidalgo -- Geometric generalization of the Nelder-Mead algorithm / Alberto Moraglio and Colin G. Johnson -- Guided ejection search for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows / Yuichi Nagata and Shigenobu Kobayashi -- An evolutionary algorithm guided by preferences elicited according to the ELECTRE TRI method principles / Eunice Oliveira and Carlos Henggeler Antunes -- Multilevel variable neighborhood search for periodic routing problems / Sandro Pirkwieser and Günther R. Raidl -- Enhancing genetic algorithms by a trie-based complete solution archive / Günther R. Raidl and Bin Hu -- A new primal-dual genetic algorithm : case study for the winner determination problem / Madalina Raschip and Cornelius Croitoru -- Local search algorithms on graphics processing units : a case study : the permutation perceptron problem / Thé Van Luong, Nouredine Melab, and El-Ghazali Talbi -- Efficient cycle search for the minimum routing cost spanning tree problem / Steffen Wolf and Peter Merz.

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