1 “... growing field, from its theoretical inception to practical applications, including descriptions of many...”

2 “... many new metaheuristic strategies have been devised, they have been experimentally tested and improved...”

3 “... for tackling computationally hard decision and optimization pr- lems from many areas of computer science...”

4 “... applicability and high performance for many important problems studied in academia and enco- tered in real-world...”