This article provides a survey on the highly popular metaheuristic framework, the adaptive
large neighborhood search (ALNS). The basic concepts of ALNS are discussed in this …

This is a review of the literature on variants and extensions of the standard location-routing
problem published since the last survey, by Nagy and Salhi, appeared in 2006. We propose …

This paper introduces a novel physical-inspired metaheuristic algorithm called “Light
Spectrum Optimizer (LSO)” for continuous optimization problems. The inspiration for the …

Free-floating bike sharing (FFBS) is an innovative bike sharing model. FFBS saves on start-
up cost, in comparison to station-based bike sharing (SBBS), by avoiding construction of …

This paper gives a review on existing scheduling methodologies developed for process
industries. Above all, the aim of the paper is to focus on the industrial aspects of scheduling …

Research in metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems has lately experienced
a noteworthy shift towards the hybridization of metaheuristics with other techniques for …

Reconfiguration is concerned with relationships among solutions to a problem instance,
where the reconfiguration of one solution to another is a sequence of steps such that each …

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 …

When SIAM asked us to prepare a new edition of this book after less than three years from
publication, we expected a light duty. Just the correction of some typos and imprecisions …

The pickup and delivery problem with time windows is the problem of serving a number of
transportation requests using a limited amount of vehicles. Each request involves moving a …