Metaheuristics:: Progress as Real Problem Solvers Book

Preface.- Metaheuristic Agent Processes (MAPs).- GRASP with Path-Relinking: Recent advances and applications.- A Tabu Search Heuristic for a University Timetabling Problem.- An Investigation of Automated Planograms Using a Simulated Annealing Based Hyper-Heuristic.- Validation and Optimization of an Elevator Simulation Model with Modern Search Heuristics.- Multi-Objective Hyper-Heuristic Approaches for Space Allocation and Timetabling.- Theory and Practice of the Minimum Shift Design Problem.- Local Search Algorithms for the Two-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem with a Given Number of Different Patterns.- A Generic Object-Oriented Tabu Search Framework.- Bi-Objective Sequencing of Cutting Patterns: An application for the paper industry.- Metaheuristics Approach for Rule Acquisition in Flexible Shop Scheduling Problems.- Predicting Colorectal Cancer Recurrence: A hybrid neural Networks-based approach.- A Constructive Genetic Approach to Point-Feature Cartographic Label Placement.- Parallel Strategies for GRASP with Path-Relinking.- Speeding Up Local Search Neighborhood Evaluation for a Multi-Dimensional Knapsack Problem.- Computationally Difficult Instances for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem.- Consistent Neighborhood in a Tabu Search.- Constraint Oriented Neighborhoods - A New Search Strategy in Metaheuristics.