Fellow researchers,
We are preparing a survey chapter on Scatter Search and Path Relinking for
a Handbook on Metaheuristics, to appear in a special "Advancing the Sate-of-
the-Art" series by Kluwer. We are going to include in our paper a
collection of short descriptions of applications of these methods, and we
would like to ask to those of you working on SS or PR to send us
a "vignette" (one or two pages in WORD) we can use to call attention to
your work and to let people know about your main findings in this area.
(If you have done multiple studies, and would like to contribute more than
one vignette, that would be entirely welcome.)
A vignette can be structured any way you wish, though you can get some
guidelines by looking at the collection of vignettes in Chapter 8 of the
Tabu Search book. To save effort on your part, if you prefer you can simply
extract parts of papers you have already written -- such as portions of
abstracts, introductions, summaries of main findings, and conclusions --and
send it along. We will edit the result (as the vignettes of the TS book
were edited).
In addition, we have some examples of vignettes we have generated to
include in the paper. They may give you a rough idea of style, but don't
feel you need to follow their format (If you are interested, ask them to
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Any contributions you make will be greatly appreciated. We are facing a
deadline that requires us to receive your vignette(s) within the next few
weeks, but we also plan to make these and additional vignettes available to
be accessed on a website.
Be sure to include relevant information about yourself (name, address,
affiliation, etc.), including website information, so we can cross-link our
website with yours!
Best Regards,
Fred Glover
Manuel Laguna
Rafael Marti (corresponding author)
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