1. Foreword

   • Gilbert Laporte
   • Ibrahim H. Osman

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. Simulated annealing metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem with time windows

   • Wen-Chyuan Chiang
   • Robert A. Russell

   Simulated Annealing Pages: 3 - 27

3. Generalized speculative computation of parallel simulated annealing

   • Andrew Sohn

   Simulated Annealing Pages: 29 - 55

4. Combining simulated annealing with local search heuristics

   • Olivier C. Martin
   • Steve W. Otto

   Simulated Annealing Pages: 57 - 75

5. Focused simulated annealing search: An application to job shop scheduling

   • Norman M. Sadeh
   • Yoichiro Nakakuki

   Simulated Annealing Pages: 77 - 103

6. Variants of simulated annealing for the examination timetabling problem

   • Jonathan M. Thompson
   • Kathryn A. Dowsland

   Simulated Annealing Pages: 105 - 128

7. A comparison of two methods for solving 0–1 integer programs using a general purpose simulated annealing algorithm

   • David Abramson
   • Henry Dang
   • Mohan Krishnamoorthy

   Simulated Annealing Pages: 129 - 150