Journal of Heuristics

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Manuel Laguna

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Volume 32, issue 3, 2026

Adaptive NSGA-III for a tactical bi-objective optimization of integrated berth and quay crane assignment in transshipment operations pp. 1-48

Abdelkader Sbihi, Marwa Al Samrout and Adnan Yassine

Mixed fleet sizing and scheduling for green distribution with time-based shipment consolidation pp. 1-51

Anass Kajji, Tarik Aouam, Asmae El Mokrini and Birger Raa

A local search algorithm with adaptive mechanism for multi-depot cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem considering prioritized customers pp. 1-34

Yan-e Hou, Chunyang Zhang and Tiantian Xu

A particle swarm optimization algorithm for the clustered orienteering problem pp. 1-35

Tunchan Cura

Simulated annealing–Tabu search integration for downside-risk portfolio optimization with cardinality constraints pp. 1-26

Silvia Maria de Simões Carvalho, Magda da Silva Peixoto and Carlos Moraes de Freitas

Volume 32, issue 2, 2026

A hybrid evolutionary approach for location routing of unmanned aerial vehicles in transmission tower inspection pp. 1-38

Yongliang Lu, Shaowen Lan and Raymond Chiong

A Robust Optimization Framework for eBus Charging Infrastructure Planning pp. 1-28

César Loaiza Quintana, Laura Climent and Alejandro Arbelaez

A self-learning Variable Neighborhood Search algorithm based on reinforcement learning for Green flexible job-shop scheduling problem pp. 1-28

Maha Ben Hamida, Ameni Azzouz and Lamjed Ben Said

Fixed set search matheuristic applied to the min-Knapsack problem with compactness constraints and an extension incorporating penalty values pp. 1-23

Ahmet Cürebal, Stefan Voß and Raka Jovanovic

Optimizing staff scheduling in community emergency medical services using a self-learning genetic algorithm pp. 1-23

Ameni Azzouz, Takwa Tlili, Ines Hilali Jaghdam and Feda Muhammed Abuhaimed

Quantum annealing heuristics for the job shop scheduling problem with availability constraints pp. 1-33

Samuel Deleplanque, Luis Fernando Pérez Armas and Riad Aggoune

Mixed integer programs to improve solutions of vehicle routing problems with intra-route constraints pp. 1-26

Simen T. Vadseth, Henrik Andersson, Jean-François Cordeau and Magnus Stålhane

Influence maximization: a local branching algorithm for solving the positive influence dominating set problem pp. 1-26

Yamina Bekhti, Mohammed Lalou, Méziane Aïder and Hamamache Kheddouci

Extending GRASP towards an improved Fixed Set Search for solving the maximum disjoint dominating sets problem pp. 1-36

Raka Jovanovic and Stefan Voß

Indirect job-shop coding using rank: application to QAOA (IQAOA) pp. 1-24

Eric Bourreau, Gérard Fleury and Philippe Lacomme

GAGS: parallelized genetic algorithm-based grid search for SVM + model optimization pp. 1-39

J. D. Fernández, J. Vega and S. Dormido-Canto

Volume 32, issue 1, 2026

Mathematical formulations and a Relax-and-Fix heuristic algorithm for capacitated reliable fixed-charge facility location problems pp. 1-41

Abdolreza Roshani, Glenn Parry and Philip Walker-Davies

Can machine learning help in solving the pallet loading optimization problem? pp. 1-31

Mauro Dell’Amico, Giorgia Franchini, Matteo Magnani and Luca Zanni

Improving state-of-the-art vertex sorting algorithms to compute the maximum common induced subgraph pp. 1-33

Andrea Calabrese, Lorenzo Cardone, Salvatore Licata, Marco Porro and Stefano Quer

A Tabu Search algorithm for the single source capacitated partial set covering location problem pp. 1-58

Fábio Pires Mourão, Elisangela Martins de Sá, Sérgio Ricardo de Souza and Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza

Graph downsizing: a fast heuristic for querying closely connected subgraphs pp. 1-19

Yiping Liu, Mengxiao Zhang, Jiamou Liu and Yi Zhou

Multi-armed Bandit and Backbone boost Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem and its Variants pp. 1-32

Long Wang, Jiongzhi Zheng, Zhengda Xiong and Kun He

Large neighborhood search and hyper-heuristics for the capacitated p-median problem pp. 1-32

Ida Gjergji, Lucas Kletzander and Nysret Musliu

Variable neighborhood search for healthcare providers rostering: a comprehensive review and future research agenda pp. 1-25

Moustafa Abdelwanis, Eman Ouda, Dima Al Absi, Firda Rahmadani, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler and Andrei Sleptchenko

Definition of Region of Interest in multiobjective problems using hyperellipsoids pp. 1-29

Patrick Ferreira, Luciana Cosme and Allysson Lacerda

Automated Tabu Tenure Tuning by Trajectory Metrics for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization pp. 1-52

Masahiko Sugimura, Keiichiro Yamamura, Hiroki Ishikura, Akihiro Yoshida, Ken Kawano, Matthieu Parizy and Katsuki Fujisawa

A Hybrid Genetic Search for Selective Routing with Overlapping Clusters: A Case Study in Order Picking pp. 1-52

Vittorio Latorre and Donato Salvatore

Volume 31, issue 4, 2025

Exploiting user-supplied Decompositions inside Heuristics pp. 1-38

Katrin Halbig, Adrian Göß and Dieter Weninger

Resource-constrained multi-stage processing and assembly scheduling with sequential and batch operations pp. 1-41

Song Wu, Yang Wang, Yu Du, Wei Yang and Jianguang Feng

Automated CNN architecture design with enhanced particle swarm optimization pp. 1-51

Arjun Ghosh, Nanda Dulal Jana and Subhayu Ghosh

An iterated local search heuristic for the maximum Intersection of $$k$$ k -subsets problem pp. 1-29

Hélder Silva Ferreira and Rian G. S. Pinheiro

A matheuristic for design and dispatch of a utility-connected distributed energy system pp. 1-52

James Grymes, Alexandra Newman, Alexander Zolan and Dinesh Mehta

A Random-Key optimizer for combinatorial optimization pp. 1-47

Antonio A. Chaves, Mauricio G. C. Resende, Martin J. A. Schuetz, J. Kyle Brubaker, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Edilson F. de Arruda and Ricardo M. A. Silva

Minimax regret makespan scheduling with interval release dates on unrelated machines pp. 1-37

Mirosław Ławrynowicz and Jerzy Józefczyk

Volume 31, issue 3, 2025

Stochastic capacitated dispersion problems in disaster preparedness for mass casualty incident pp. 1-30

B. Stephan Onggo, Xabier A. Martin, Canan G. Corlu, Javier Panadero and Angel Juan

Efficient Hybridization of Quantum Annealing and Ant Colony Optimization for Coloring DIMACS Graph Instances pp. 1-44

Arnab Kole and Anindya Jyoti Pal

Selector: Ensemble-Based Automated Algorithm Configuration pp. 1-31

Dimitri Weiß, Elias Schede and Kevin Tierney

A new, efficient approach to speed up local search by estimating the solution quality: an application to stochastic, parallel machine scheduling pp. 1-31

Guido Passage, Marjan van den Akker and Han Hoogeveen

A Tabu-Bi-label hybridized branch and price algorithm for just-in-time material handling scheduling problems of mixed-model assembly lines with electric vehicle recharging requirements pp. 1-34

Yufan Huang and Binghai Zhou

solQHealer: Quantum Procedures for Rendering Infeasible Solutions Feasible: A Proof of Concept with the Maximum Independent Set Problem and 3-SAT pp. 1-28

Samuel Deleplanque, Luis Fernando Pérez Armas and Stefan Creemers

Volume 31, issue 2, 2025

Fast constructive heuristics for the uncapacitated inventory routing problem pp. 1-31

Miguel Ángel Marfurt Alarcón, Lehilton Lelis Chaves Pedrosa and Fábio Luiz Usberti

Hybrid algorithms for enhanced efficiency and scalability of network-based tri-level interdiction models pp. 1-43

Nafiseh Ghorbani-Renani, Andrés D. González and Kash Barker

An adaptive variable neighborhood search for the traveling salesman problem with job-times pp. 1-65

Shaowen Lan, Yongliang Lu and Wenjuan Fan

A reliability-extended simheuristic for the sustainable vehicle routing problem with stochastic travel times and demands pp. 1-39

Hassana Abdullahi, Lorena Reyes-Rubiano, Djamila Ouelhadj, Javier Faulin and Angel Juan

Efficient solution of the number partitioning problem on a quantum annealer: a hybrid quantum-classical decomposition approach pp. 1-20

Zongji Li, Tobias Seidel, Dominik Leib, Michael Bortz and Raoul Heese

Tree search hyper-heuristic with application to combinatorial optimization pp. 1-42

Francisco Javier Gil-Gala, Marko Ɖurasevic, Maria R. Sierra and Ramiro Varela

A biased-randomised iterated local search for the team orienteering arc routing problem allowing different origin and destination pp. 1-27

Xabier A. Martin, Peter Keenan, Javier Panadero, Sean McGarraghy and Angel Juan

Hybrid iterated local search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with lockers pp. 1-25

Bruno Oliveira, Artur Pessoa and Marcos Roboredo

Volume 31, issue 1, 2025

A Q-learning-based algorithm for the block relocation problem pp. 1-41

Liqun Liu, Yuanjun Feng, Qingcheng Zeng, Zhijun Chen and Yaqiu Li

Heuristic algorithm for integrated ship scheduling, routing and stowage problem in multi-vessel roll-on/roll-off shipping pp. 1-40

Yuzhe Zhao, Peiyun Peng, Jingmiao Zhou and Yadong Wang

An effective population-based approach for the partial set covering problem pp. 1-32

Ye Zhang, Jinlong He, Yupeng Zhou, Shuli Hu, Dunbo Cai, Naiyu Tian and Minghao Yin

A memetic algorithm for the flexible periodic vehicle routing problem pp. 1-26

Banafsheh Amiri, Koorush Ziarati and Somayeh Sohrabi

Evolutionary optimization of the area under precision-recall curve for classifying imbalanced multi-class data pp. 1-66

Marwa Chabbouh, Slim Bechikh, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Lamjed Ben Said

30 years of the Journal of Heuristics: a bibliometric analysis pp. 1-55

Martha Flores-Sosa, Jose Merigo Lindahl and Kenia Sanchez-Valenzuela

A local branching-based solution for the multi-period cutting stock problem with tardiness, earliness, and setup costs pp. 1-57

Elisama Araújo Silva Oliveira, Elizabeth Wanner, Elisangela Martins Sá and Sérgio Ricardo Souza

A heuristic algorithm to improving the coil slitting process in the steel industry pp. 1-38

Óscar Soto-Sánchez, María Sierra-Paradinas, Micael Gallego, Antonio Alonso-Ayuso and Francisco Gortázar

Feature selection for high-dimensional data using a multivariate search space reduction strategy based scatter search pp. 1-33

Miguel Garcia-Torres

Measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of simulation optimization metaheuristic algorithms pp. 1-21

Benjamin G. Thengvall, Shane N. Hall and Michael P. Deskevich

Hybridizing constraint programming and meta-heuristics for multi-mode resource-constrained multiple projects scheduling Problem pp. 1-37

Arben Ahmeti and Nysret Musliu

Lagrangian-based heuristics for production planning with perishable products, scarce resources, and sequence-dependent setup times pp. 1-35

Willy A. Oliveira Soler, Maristela O. Santos and Kerem Akartunalı

Two-echelon van-robot routing problem with sharing-curbside satellites pp. 1-35

Hongqi Li, Feilong Wang, Hanxi Xiong and Zhiqi Wang

An adaptative multi-objective scatter search for solving the dynamic bin packing problem pp. 1-69

Méziane Aïder, Sabrin Boulebene and Mhand Hifi

An efficient backtracking heuristic for the resource allocation problem with compatibility and exclusivity constraints pp. 1-29

Ahmed Khassiba

Heuristics for the run-length encoded Burrows–Wheeler transform alphabet ordering problem pp. 1-29

Lily Major, Amanda Clare, Jacqueline W. Daykin, Benjamin Mora and Christine Zarges

Transforming last mile delivery with heterogeneous assistants: drones and delivery robots pp. 1-42

Cheng Chen, Emrah Demir, Xisheng Hu and Hainan Huang