<p>I am looking for a good relatively complete and up-to-date book or survey about heuristic algorithm design techniques.</p>

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2013-11-23T23:28:58.933Z
You might try "Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization" edited by Aarts and Lensta.
Austin Buchanan
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2013-11-24T17:20:56.630Z
too broad? by typical TCS interpretation includes entire field of [machine learning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)!
vzn
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2013-11-25T16:36:23.260Z
[DBLP](http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/h/Hoos:Holger_H=) lists over 100 publications. Could you be more specific?
David Richerby
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# Heuristic algorithm design techniques

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-23)

I am looking for a good relatively complete and up-to-date book or survey about heuristic algorithm design techniques.

**Tags:** ds.algorithms, reference-request, survey, books
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You might try "Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization" edited by Aarts and Lensta.  
> **username_2**: too broad? by typical TCS interpretation includes entire field of [machine learning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)!  
> **username_3**: [DBLP](http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/h/Hoos:Holger_H=) lists over 100 publications. Could you be more specific?  

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