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Iterated local search is a metaheuristic that embeds an improvement heuristic within an iterative process generating a chain of solutions. Often, the improvement method is some kind of local search algorithm and, hence, the name of the metaheuristic. The iterative process in iterated local search consists in a perturbation of the current solution, leading to some intermediate solution that is used as a new starting solution for the improvement method. An additional acceptance criterion decides which of the solutions to keep for continuing this process. This simple idea has led to some very powerful algorithms that have been successfully used to tackle hard combinatorial optimization problems. In this chapter, we review the main ideas of iterated local search, exemplify its application to combinatorial problems, discuss historical aspects of the development of the method, and give an overview of some successful applications.

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This work received support from the COMEX project within the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme of the Belgian Science Policy Office. Thomas Stützle acknowledges support from the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS, of which he is a senior research associate. Rubén Ruiz is partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, under the project “SCHEYARD – Optimization of Scheduling Problems in Container Yards” (No. DPI2015-65895-R) financed by FEDER funds.

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Stützle, T., Ruiz, R. (2018). Iterated Local Search. In: Martí, R., Pardalos, P., Resende, M. (eds) Handbook of Heuristics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07124-4_8

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