1. A Study of Permutation Operators for Minimum Span Frequency Assignment Using an Order Based Representation

   • Christine L. Valenzuela

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 21

2. Simulated N-Body: New Particle Physics-Based Heuristics for a Euclidean Location-Allocation Problem

   • Rahul Simha
   • Weidong Cai
   • Valentin Spitkovsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 36

3. Improved Bounds for Ternary Linear Codes of Dimension 8 Using Tabu Search

   • T. Aaron Gulliver
   • Patric R.J. Östergård

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 46

4. On the Convergence of Tabu Search

   • Saïd Hanafi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 58

5. Upper Bounds on the Covering Number of Galois-Planes with Small Order

   • T. Illés
   • D. Pisinger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 76

6. Using Experimental Design to Find Effective Parameter Settings for Heuristics

   • Steven P. Coy
   • Bruce L. Golden
   • Edward A. Wasil

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 97