Adaptive and Multilevel Metaheuristics

Reviews of the Field.- Hyperheuristics: Recent Developments.- Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation.- New Techniques and Applications.- An Efficient Hyperheuristic for Strip-Packing Problems.- Probability-Driven Simulated Annealing for Optimizing Digital FIR Filters.- RASH: A Self-adaptive Random Search Method.- Market Based Allocation of Transportation Orders to Vehicles in Adaptive Multi-objective Vehicle Routing.- A Simple Evolutionary Algorithm with Self-adaptation for Multi-objective Nurse Scheduling.- Individual Evolution as an Adaptive Strategy for Photogrammetric Network Design.- Adaptive Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Initialization and Displacement of the Particles in TRIBES, a Parameter-Free Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Evolution of Descent Directions.- "Multiple Neighbourhood" Search in Commercial VRP Packages: Evolving Towards Self-Adaptive Methods.- Automated Parameterisation of a Metaheuristic for the Orienteering Problem.