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.