He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization. Pardalos is also a Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Spain, and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals for 'scientific contributions that stand the test of time.' Dr. Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization.

Panos Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor and the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and a world renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, and Data Sciences. He coordinates the Spanish Network on Metaheuristics, currently funded as a SEIO working group. Martí has been invited Professor at the University of Colorado (USA), University of Molde (Norway), University of Graz (Austria), and University of Bretagne-Sud (France). He is Senior Research Associate of OptTek Systems (USA), and has given about 50 invited and plenary talks. Martí is currently Area Editor in the Journal of Heuristics, Associate Editor in the Math. He is the co-author of several monographic books: Scatter Search (Kluwer 2003), The Linear Ordering Problem (Springer 2011), and Metaheuristics for Business Analytics (Springer 2018), and has secured an American patent. Prof.

Dr Martí has about 200 publications, half of them in indexed journals (JCR), including EJOR, Informs JoC, IIE Transactions, JOGO, C&OR, and Discrete and Applied Maths. He has done extensive research in metaheuristics for hard optimization problems. He received a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1994. Rafael Martí is Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Valencia, Spain. Next, chapters will include discussion of the adaptation of this methodology to solve a difficult optimization problem, and experiments on a set of representative problems. Key words are also necessary as part of top-matter to each chapter to enable maximum search engine optimization. Each chapter of this work includes an abstract/introduction with a short description of the methodology. The reference concludes with numerous illustrations of the highly applicable nature and implementation of Heuristics in our daily life. This is followed by Chapters containing various examples of local searches, search strategies and Metaheuristics, leading to an analyses of Heuristics and search algorithms. The introduction to this Handbook provides an overview of the history of Heuristics along with main issues regarding the methodologies covered. Any given solution/heuristic is not guaranteed to be optimal but heuristic methodologies are used to speed up the process of finding satisfactory solutions where optimal solutions are impractical. To the layman, heuristics may be thought of as ‘rules of thumb’ but despite its imprecision, heuristics is a very rich field that refers to experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery. GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures) is an example of a Metaheuristic. By contrast, Metaheuristics are methods used to design Heuristics and may coordinate the usage of several Heuristics toward the formulation of a single method. Algorithms, for example, are a type of heuristic. Heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, loosely applicable information to control problem solving.

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