%0 Journal Article %1 osman:1996 %A Osman, Ibrahim %A Laporte, Gilbert %D 1996 %I Springer Netherlands %J Annals of Operations Research %K algorithms, approximate, metaheuristics, optimization, search %N 5 %P 511--623 %R 10.1007/BF02125421 %T Metaheuristics: A bibliography %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02125421 %V 63 %X Metaheuristics are the most exciting development in approximate optimization techniques of the last two decades. They have had widespread successes in attacking a variety of difficult combinatorial optimization problems that arise in many practical areas. This bibliography provides a classification of a comprehensive list of 1380 references on the theory and application of metaheuristics. Metaheuristics include but are not limited to constraint logic programming; greedy random adaptive search procedures; natural evolutionary computation; neural networks; non-monotonic search strategies; space-search methods; simulated annealing; tabu search; threshold algorithms and their hybrids. References are presented in alphabetical order under a number of subheadings.

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