New book: Optimization by GRASP; Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures

This is a well known meta-heuristic (with a somewhat less flashy name than some of the new heuristics that get invented every week). Apparently this is the first book fully dedicated to GRASP. GRASP was introduced in 1989 by Feo and Resende (2). Chapters: Introduction A short tour of combinatorial optimization and computational complexity Solution construction and greedy algorithms Local search GRASP: The basic heuristic Runtime distributions Extended construction heuristics Path-relinking GRASP with path-relinking Parallel GRASP heuristics GRASP for continuous optimization Case studies

References

1. Mauricio G. C. Resende and Celso C. Ribiero, Optimization by GRASP,  Springer 2016. Price: about $0.25 per page (some of them with color pictures).
2. T.A. Feo and M.G.C. Resende, A probabilistic heuristic for a computationally difficult set covering problem, Operations Research Letters, 8:67–71, 1989.