Handbook of Heuristics (2nd Edition)

The handbook of heuristics consists of five main parts: search strategies, local search, metaheuristics, analysis and implementations, and applications. They cover from search methods and methodological aspects, such as matheuristics, the exciting field in which mathematical programming is combined with heuristics, to applications that provide the practitioner with a description of some relevant optimization issues in a number of specific application areas, such as scheduling, vehicle routing, or network optimization.