An Evolutionary ILS-Perturbation Technique -- A Cultural Algorithm for POMDPs from Stochastic Inventory Control -- A Variable Neighborhood Search Integrated in the POPMUSIC Framework for Solving Large Scale Vehicle Routing Problems -- A Memetic Algorithm with Population Management (MA/PM) for the Periodic Location-Routing Problem -- Memetic Algorithm for Intense Local Search Methods Using Local Search Chains -- Incremental Particle Swarm-Guided Local Search for Continuous Optimization -- Optimised Search Heuristic Combining Valid Inequalities and Tabu Search -- Iterated Greedy Algorithms for a Real-World Cyclic Train Scheduling Problem -- On the Integration of a TSP Heuristic into an EA for the Bi-objective Ring Star Problem -- Boosting VNS with Neighborhood Heuristics for Solving Constraint Optimization Problems -- Hybrid Local Search Techniques for the Generalized Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem -- Lagrangian Decomposition, Metaheuristics, and Hybrid Approaches for the Design of the Last Mile in Fiber Optic Networks -- Combining Forces to Reconstruct Strip Shredded Text Documents -- A Memetic Algorithm for the Tool Switching Problem.