Theory and Methodology: | Applications: |
• Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS • New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS • Continuous global VNS • Convergent VNS methods • Matheuristics and VNS • Formulation space VNS • Multi-objective VNS • Parallel VNS • VNS hybrids |
• Mixed integer programming • Graphs, communication networks • Clustering, data mining, location • Inventory, routing, supply chains • Packing and covering • Discovery sciences • Other real world problems |