This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Learning and Optimization LION 8 which was held in Gainesville
FL USA in February 2014. The 33 contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected
for inclusion in this book. A large variety of topics are covered such as algorithm
configuration multiobjective optimization metaheuristics graphs and networks logistics and
transportation and biomedical applications.
