Adaptive Tabu Tenure Computation in Local Search -- A Conflict Tabu Search Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for the Delay Constrained Least Cost Path Problem -- Effective Neighborhood Structures for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem -- Efficient Local Search Limitation Strategies for Vehicle Routing Problems -- Evolutionary Local Search for the Minimum Energy Broadcast Problem -- Exploring Multi-objective PSO and GRASP-PR for Rule Induction -- An Extended Beam-ACO Approach to the Time and Space Constrained Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem -- Graph Colouring Heuristics Guided by Higher Order Graph Properties -- A Hybrid Column Generation Approach for the Berth Allocation Problem -- Hybrid Metaheuristic for the Prize Collecting Travelling Salesman Problem -- An ILS Based Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery and Time Limit -- An Immune Genetic Algorithm Based on Bottleneck Jobs for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem -- Improved Construction Heuristics and Iterated Local Search for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem -- Improving Metaheuristic Performance by Evolving a Variable Fitness Function -- Improving Query Expansion with Stemming Terms: A New Genetic Algorithm Approach -- Inc*: An Incremental Approach for Improving Local Search Heuristics -- Metaheuristics for the Bi-objective Ring Star Problem -- Multiobjective Prototype Optimization with Evolved Improvement Steps -- Optimising Multiple Kernels for SVM by Genetic Programming -- Optimization of Menu Layouts by Means of Genetic Algorithms -- A Path Relinking Approach with an Adaptive Mechanism to Control Parameters for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows -- Reactive Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for the Genomic Median Problem -- Solving Graph Coloring Problems Using Learning Automata.