From the reviews: "The strength of the book is its clear motivation to bring a new breath from metaheuristics into training of neural networks and integrate both sub-disciplines for the purpose of better exploitation of artificial intelligence approaches. ... The most benefiting reader of this book will perhaps be those who research on modelling data with ANN faced with difficulty of robust mapping with classical training algorithms." (S. Gazioglu, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 58 (12), 2007)

• Classical Training Methods.- Local Search Based Methods.- Simulated Annealing.- Tabu Search.- Variable Neighbourhood Search.- Population Based Methods.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Genetic Algorithms.- Scatter Search.- Other Advanced Methods.- Ant Colony Optimization.- Cooperative Coevolutionary Methods.- Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures.- Memetic Algorithms.

From the reviews: "The strength of the book is its clear motivation to bring a new breath from metaheuristics into training of neural networks and integrate both sub-disciplines for the purpose of better exploitation of artificial intelligence approaches. ... The most benefiting reader of this book will perhaps be those who research on modelling data with ANN faced with difficulty of robust mapping with classical training algorithms." (S. Gazioglu, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 58 (12), 2007)

• Classical Training Methods.- Local Search Based Methods.- Simulated Annealing.- Tabu Search.- Variable Neighbourhood Search.- Population Based Methods.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Genetic Algorithms.- Scatter Search.- Other Advanced Methods.- Ant Colony Optimization.- Cooperative Coevolutionary Methods.- Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures.- Memetic Algorithms.

From the reviews: "The strength of the book is its clear motivation to bring a new breath from metaheuristics into training of neural networks and integrate both sub-disciplines for the purpose of better exploitation of artificial intelligence approaches. ... The most benefiting reader of this book will perhaps be those who research on modelling data with ANN faced with difficulty of robust mapping with classical training algorithms." (S. Gazioglu, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 58 (12), 2007)

• Classical Training Methods.- Local Search Based Methods.- Simulated Annealing.- Tabu Search.- Variable Neighbourhood Search.- Population Based Methods.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Genetic Algorithms.- Scatter Search.- Other Advanced Methods.- Ant Colony Optimization.- Cooperative Coevolutionary Methods.- Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures.- Memetic Algorithms.