Holger Hoos, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille, France, Marie-Ele ́onore Kessacib, University of Lille, France Thomas Stu ̈tzle, Universite ́ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Nadarajen Veerapen, University of Lille, France Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are among the most powerful techniques for solving computationally hard problems in many areas of […]

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Andres L. Medaglia, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia / HEC Montre ́al, Canada Jorge E. Mendoza, HEC Montre ́al, Canada Celso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Ruben Ruiz, Universitat Polite`cnica de Vale`ncia, Spain Juan G. Villegas, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia The Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) series was established in 1995 and the one […]

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 Jose Marıa Moreno-Jimenez, University of Zaragoza, Spain and Luis G. Vargas, University of Pittsburgh, USA Decision making is an inherent and essential characteristic of human beings that reflects their degree of evolution, knowledge and freedom. Until the mid-1970s, scientific decision making focused on the Product (the decision itself). For the next 20 years, […]

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Evrim Gunesa, Koc ̧ University, Turkey Ineˆs Marquesb, University of Lisbon, Portugal Ana Vianac, Polytechnic of Porto and INESC TEC, Portugal  The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will publish a special issue on OR in Healthcare at the occasion of the 22nd Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies […]