Comparing Parallelization of an ACO: Message Passing vs. Shared Memory -- An LP-Based Hybrid Heuristic Procedure for the Generalized Assignment Problem with Special Ordered Sets -- Parametrized Greedy Heuristics in Theory and Practice -- A Taxonomy of Cooperative Search Algorithms -- A Hybrid Genetic and Variable Neighborhood Descent for Probabilistic SAT Problem -- A Hybrid Meta-heuristic Approach for Natural Gas Pipeline Network Optimization -- Hybrid Tabu Search for Lot Sizing Problems -- Fast Ejection Chain Algorithms for Vehicle Routing with Time Windows -- 3D Inter-subject Medical Image Registration by Scatter Search -- Evolution Strategies and Threshold Selection -- A Hybrid GRASP with Data Mining for the Maximum Diversity Problem -- A New Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Using Clustering Applied to Automated Docking -- A Hybrid GRASP-Path Relinking Algorithm for the Capacitated p – hub Median Problem.