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Abstract
This chapter describes the history of metaheuristics in five distinct periods, starting long before the first use of the term and ending a long time in the future.
arXiv comments
27 pages, to appear in: R. Marti, P. Pardalos, and M. Resende, eds., Handbook of Heuristics, Springer