1. Today's advances and tomorrow's challenges

   • F. Glover

   Editorial Pages: 5 - 7

2. Designing and reporting on computational experiments with heuristic methods

   • Richard S. Barr
   • Bruce L. Golden
   • William R. Stewart Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 32

3. Testing heuristics: We have it all wrong

   • J. N. Hooker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 42

4. Parallel local search

   • M. G. A. Verhoeven
   • E. H. L. Aarts

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 65

5. A hierarchical strategy for solving traveling salesman problems using elastic nets

   • Andrew I. Vakhutinsky
   • Bruce L. Golden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 76

6. Test driving three 1995 genetic algorithms: New test functions and geometric matching

   • D. Whitley
   • R. Beveridge
   • K. Mathias

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 104

7. Embedding a sequential procedure within an evolutionary algorithm for coloring problems in graphs

   • Daniel Costa
   • Alain Hertz
   • Clivier Dubuis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 128

8. On minimum congestion routing in rearrangeable multihop lightwave networks

   • Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
   • Jean-François Labourdette

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 145

9. Probabilistic diversification and intensification in local search for vehicle routing

   • Yves Rochat
   • Éric D. Taillard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 167