The purpose of this special issue is to provide a premier forum for researchers to disseminate their high quality and original research results on all kinds of metaheuristics for combinatorial problems either in an application perspective or from a theoretical sense.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
In-depth experimental analysis and comparisons between different techniques
Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
Hybrid methods (e.g., memetic computing, matheuristics, hyperheuristics)
Meta-analytics and search space landscape analyses
Theoretical studies of metaheuristics
Representation techniques
Multiobjective combinatorial optimization
Constraint-handling techniques in metaheuristics
Automated tuning of metaheuristics
Automated design of metaheuristics

Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jmath/operations.research/mmcop/.
Manuscript Due Friday, 27 November 2015
First Round of Reviews Friday, 19 February 2016
Publication Date Friday, 15 April 2016