Hybrid Metaheuristics - 6th International Workshop, HM 2009

The International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics was established with the aim of providing researchers and scholars with a forum for discussing new ideas and research on metaheuristics and their integration with techniques typical of other fields. The papers accepted for the sixth workshop confirm that such a combination is indeed effective and that several research areas can be put together. Slowly but surely, this process has been promoting productive dialogue among researchers with different expertise and eroding barriers between research areas. The papers in this volume give a representative sample of current research in hybrid metaheuristics. It is worth emphasizing that this year, a large number of papers demonstrated how metaheuristics can be integrated with integer linear programming and other operations research techniques.