Learning and Intelligent Optimization ; 2nd International Conference, LION 2007 II, Trento, Italy, December 8-12, 2007. Selected Papers

The papers cover current issues of machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems and are organized in topical sections on improving optimization through learning, variable neighborhood search, insect colony optimization, applications, new paradigms, cliques, stochastic optimization, combinatorial optimization, fitness and landscapes, and particle swarm optimization.