Abstract
In this issue we present a peer-reviewed selection of short papers that were accepted for presentation in the 4th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS'16) which was held in Málaga, Spain, during October 3–5, 2016. This conference is devoted to the Variable Neighborhood Search metaheuristic which was originally proposed by Nenad Mladenović and Pierre Hansen. This methodology is currently consolidated as a general framework to solve hard optimization problems and it is widely used all around the world.
Eduardo García Pardo
Full Professor
One of the founders of the investigation group GRAFO, whose main line of research is the development of algorithms to tackle optimization problems, the topic of the researcher’s Doctoral Thesis and which their most notable publications are framed.