Combinatorial Optimization: Mixed Integer Linear Programming Based Large Neighborhood Search Approaches for the Directed Feedback Vertex Set Problem.- Uniformly Deployed Sets in Computer Science and Optimisation.- A Simulated Annealing Based Approach for the Roman Domination Problem.- Metaheuristic Algorithms for Circle Packing Problem: A Comprehensive Review.- Ergodic Annealing: intelligent optimization under uncertainty.- Scheduling: High Performance Algorithms for the Unrelated Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem with a Common Server and Job-Sequence Dependent Setup Times.- A Honey Bee Mating Optimization HyperHeuristic for Patient Admission Scheduling Problem.- Network ow models for days ö scheduling.- Continuous Optimization: Opposition Based Local Escaping Marine Predators Algorithm for Continuous Optimization; Impact of Structural Bias on the Sine Cosine Algorithm: A Theoretical Investigation Using the Signature Test; Success Rate Based Scaling Factor Adaptation in Dual-Population Dierential Evolution.- Automatic Metahuristics Tuning: A Study About Meta-Optimizing the NSGA-II Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm.- Articial Intelligence for Metaheuristic Parameter Setting.- Hyperheuristic as Tuning Tool of Generalized Swap Strategy.- Optimization & Machine Learning: An optimised version of dierential evolution heuristic for feature selection.- Machine Learning-based Per-Instance Algorithm Selection for High-Performance Subgraph Isomorphism Enumeration.- Applications: Memetic Algorithms for the Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem: Real Case Study of Energy Distribution System Operator (DSO).- Cluster images with AntClust: a clustering algorithm based on the chemical recognition system of ants.- EVADyR: a new dynamic resampling algorithm for optimizing noisy expensive systems.