An Introduction to Metaheuristics for Optimization
暫譯: 優化的元啟發式方法入門

Bastien Chopard earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics before spending 2 years as a postdoc at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT and 1 year in the supercomputing center in Juelich, Germany. Then he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Geneva, where he later became a full professor. His research interests comprise the modeling and simulation of complex systems with their applications to multidisciplinary domains of science, such as physics, environment, life sciences, and social systems. During his career, he taught programming courses, high performance computing, algorithms, modeling of natural phenomena, and metaheuristics, always combining a rigorous theoretical approach with a problem solving ambition.

He published over 300 scientific articles, including authored and edited books and was part of many international projects and conference organizations. He is now emeritus professor at the University of Geneva.

Marco Tomassini is an emeritus professor of Computer Science at the Information Systems Department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained a doctoral degree in Chemical Physics working on computer simulations of molecular crystals and macromolecules.
His present research interests are centered on complex networks and complex systems. In particular, the structure and optimization of hard combinatorial problems, the robustness of complex networks, and evolutionary games in networks. He has lectured on scientific computing, evolutionary computation, complex systems, game theory, and optimization metaheuristics in general. He has been the program chairman of several international events and has published many scientific papers and several authored and edited books in these fields. He has received the EvoStar 2010 Award in recognition for outstanding contribution to evolutionary computation.

巴斯蒂安·肖帕德（Bastien Chopard）在理論物理學領域獲得博士學位，隨後在麻省理工學院（MIT）的計算機科學實驗室擔任了兩年的博士後研究員，並在德國尤利希的超級計算中心工作了一年。之後，他加入了日內瓦大學的計算機科學系，並最終成為正教授。他的研究興趣包括複雜系統的建模與模擬，以及其在物理學、環境科學、生命科學和社會系統等多學科科學領域的應用。在他的職業生涯中，他教授了程式設計、高效能計算、演算法、自然現象的建模和元啟發式演算法，始終將嚴謹的理論方法與解決問題的雄心結合在一起。

他發表了超過300篇科學文章，包括著作和編輯的書籍，並參與了許多國際項目和會議的組織工作。他目前是日內瓦大學的名譽教授。

馬可·托馬西尼（Marco Tomassini）是瑞士洛桑大學（University of Lausanne）資訊系統系的名譽教授。他在化學物理學領域獲得博士學位，研究分子晶體和大分子的計算機模擬。他目前的研究興趣集中在複雜網絡和複雜系統上，特別是硬組合問題的結構與優化、複雜網絡的穩健性，以及網絡中的進化博弈。他曾講授科學計算、進化計算、複雜系統、博弈論和優化元啟發式演算法等課程。他曾擔任多個國際活動的程序主席，並在這些領域發表了許多科學論文和幾本著作及編輯的書籍。他因對進化計算的傑出貢獻而獲得2010年EvoStar獎。