Preface.- Introduction.- Simulated Annealing.- Optimization by Recurrent Neural Networks.- Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming.- Evolutionary Strategies.- Differential Evolution.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Mimetic Algorithms.- Topics in EAs.- Particle Swarm Optimization.- Artificial Immune Systems.- Ant Colony Optimization.- Tabu Search and Scatter Search.- Bee Metaheuristics.- Harmony Search.- Biomolecular Computing.- Quantum...