1. A Continuous Genetic Algorithm Designed for the Global Optimization of Multimodal Functions

   • R. Chelouah
   • P. Siarry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 213

2. Rescaled Simulated Annealing—Accelerating Convergence of Simulated Annealing by Rescaling the States Energies

   • L. Herault

   OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 252

3. Tabu Search for a Network Loading Problem with Multiple Facilities

   • David Berger
   • Bernard Gendron
   • Patrick Soriano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 267

4. An Heuristic Algorithm for Handling Multiple Responses

   • Maria Satratzemi
   • Constantine Tsouros
   • Frank Harary

   OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 282