Author: Thomas Stutzle

Metaheuristics support managers in decision-making with robust tools that provide high-quality solutions to important applications in business, engineering, economics, and science in reasonable time …

Metaheuristics have been a very active research topic for more than two decades. During this time many new metaheuristic strategies have been devised, they have been experimentally tested and improve …

LION 3, the Third International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Op- mizatio N, was held during January 14–18 in Trento, Italy. The LION series of conferences provides a platform for …

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are among the most prominent and successful techniques for solving computationally difficult problems in many areas of computer science and operations …

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2016, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2016. The 18 full papers and 7 short papers …

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ANTS – The International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence is now at its ?fth edition. The series started in 1998 with the – ganization of ANTS 1998. At that time the goal …

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms enjoy great popularity as powerful and versatile tools for tackling computationally hard decision and optimization pr- lems from many areas of computer …

The series of biannual international conferences "ANTS – International C- ference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence", now in its sixth edition, was started ten years ago, …

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are established tools for the solution of computationally hard problems arising in computer science, business adm- istration, engineering, biology, and …

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2012. This volume contains 15 full papers, 20 short papers, …

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This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics. Matheuristics are based on mathematical extensions of previously known heuristics, mainly metaheuristics, and on original, …

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2020, held online -due to COVID-19- in Barcelona Spain, in October 2020. The 20 full papers …

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Evo COP 2023, held as part of Evo*2023, in Brno, Czech …

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Evo COP 2024, held as part of Evo Star 2024, in Aberystwyth, …