EL-GHAZALI TALBI, PHD, is Professor in the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Lille, France. His research interests include parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization and their applications to generic and real-world problems. Dr. Talbi leads the OPAC (Parallel Cooperative Optimization) research team; is the scientific leader of the INRIA DOLPHIN project dealing with distributed multi-objective optimization; and is active in several research and industrial projects, publications, and international conferences in the field.

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• Preface. Acknowledgments.Contributors.1. Parallel Branch-and-Bound Algorithms (T. Crainic, B. Lecun, C. Roucairol).2. Parallel Dynamic Programming (F. Almeida, D. Gonzalez, I. Pelaez).3. Parallel Branch and Cut (T. Ralphs).4. Parallel Semidefinite Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (S. J. Benson).5. Parallel Resolution of the Satisfiability Problem: A Survey (D. Singer).6. Parallel Metaheuristics: Algorithms and Frameworks (N. Melab, E-G. Talbi, S. Cahon, E. Alba, G. Luque).7. Towards Parallel Design of Hybrids between Metaheuristics and Exact Methods (M. Basseur, L. Jourdan, E-G. Talbi).8. Parallel Exact Methods for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization (C. Dhaenens, J. Lemesre, N. Melab, M. Mezmaz, E-G. Talbi).9. Parallel Primal-Dual Interior Point Methods for Semidefinite Programs (M. Yamashita, K. Fujisawa, M. Fukuda, M. Kojima, K. Nakata).10. MW: A Software Framework for Combinatorial Optimization on Computational Grids (W. Glankwamdee, T. Linderoth).11. Constraint Logic Programming on Multiple Processors (I. Sakellariou, I. Vlahavas).12. Application of Parallel Metaheuristics to Optimization Problems in Telecommunications and Bioinformatics (S. L. Martins, C. Ribeiro, I. Rosseti).Index.