The first edition of Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision
Support Techniques was originally put together to offer a basic introduction to the various
search and optimization techniques that students might need to use during their research and
this new edition continues this tradition. Search Methodologies has been expanded and brought
completely up to date including new chapters covering scatter search GRASP and very large
neighborhood search. The chapter authors are drawn from across Computer Science and Operations
Research and include some of the world¿s leading authorities in their field. The book provides
useful guidelines for implementing the methods and frameworks described and offers valuable
tutorials to students and researchers in the field. ¿As I embarked on the pleasant journey of
reading through the chapters of this book I became convinced that this is one of the best
sources of introductory material on the search methodologies topic to be found. The book¿s
subtitle ¿Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques¿ aptly
describes its aim and the editors and contributors to this volume have achieved this aim with
remarkable success. The chapters in this book are exemplary in giving useful guidelines for
implementing the methods and frameworks described.¿ Fred Glover Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado Boulder USA ¿[The book] aims to present a series of well written
tutorials by the leading experts in their fields. Moreover it does this by covering
practically the whole possible range of topics in the discipline. It enables students and
practitioners to study and appreciate the beauty and the power of some of the computational
search techniques that are able to effectively navigate through search spaces that are
sometimes inconceivably large. I am convinced that this second edition will build on the
success of the first edition and that it will prove to be just as popular.¿ Jacek Blazewicz
Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology and Institute of Bioorganic
Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences
