Hybrid Metaheuristics Powerful Tools for Optimization

“From the perspective of a practitioner with real-world experience in combinatorial optimization, the text is comprehensive, and at the same time it offers fresh angles and shares valuable expertise. … I highly recommend this book, both to practitioners and theoreticians at the post graduate levels, be they rooted either at the ‘formal/rigid’ or ‘heuristic/soft’ ends of Combinatorial Optimization research or practice.” (Ofer M. Shir, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 19 (1-2), June, 2018)



“This book by Blum and Raidl constructs a bridge between these two approaches and aims to share expertise gained from each end. … The book is well-structured. … I highly recommend this book,both to practitioners and theoreticians at the post graduate levels, be they rooted either at the ‘formal/rigid’ or ‘heuristic/soft’ ends of Combinatorial Optimization research or practice.” (Ofer M. Shir, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 19 (1-2), June, 2018)