A Unified View on Hybrid Metaheuristics.- Packing Problems with Soft Rectangles.- A Multi-population Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Highly Constrained Continuous Galvanizing Line Scheduling.- Improvement in the Performance of Island Based Genetic Algorithms Through Path Relinking.- Using Datamining Techniques to Help Metaheuristics: A Short Survey.- An Iterated Local Search Heuristic for a Capacitated Hub Location Problem.- Using Memory to Improve the VNS Metaheuristic for the Design of SDH/WDM Networks.- Multi-level Ant Colony Optimization for DNA Sequencing by Hybridization.- Hybrid Approaches for Rostering: A Case Study in the Integration of Constraint Programming and Local Search.- A Reactive Greedy Randomized Variable Neighborhood Tabu Search for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Incorporating Inference into Evolutionary Algorithms for Max-CSP.- Scheduling Social Golfers with Memetic Evolutionary Programming.- Colour Reassignment in Tabu Search for the Graph Set T-Colouring Problem.- Investigation of One-Go Evolution Strategy/Quasi-Newton Hybridizations.