Metaheuristics

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	Name/Email/Affiliation	Brief note
	Fred Glover (edit) (fred.glovercolorado.edu) University of Colorado	He is a distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado. He introduced the tabu search approach for nonlinear and combinatorial optimization. He also developed the evolutionary method called scatter search that integrates heuristics with population based processes for combining solutions in Euclidean space. In the year 2003, he edited a handbook of metaheuristics.
	El-Ghazali Talbi (edit) (El-ghazali.Talbilifl.fr) Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale, INRIA, France	Professor Talbi has been very active in the field of metaheristics, especially parallel metaheuristics. He has authored several articles in the field.
	Christian Blum (edit) (cblumlsi.upc.edu) ALBCOM, LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Dr Blum made many contributions to the metaheuristics field including editing several books and writing numerous articles.

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