“…• Assignment Problems - (Cattrysse and Van Wassenhove, 1992, Loiola et al, 2007, Pentico, 2007 • Bioinformatics - (B lazewicz et al, 2005(B lazewicz et al, , Lukasiak et al, 2010 • Forecasting - Fildes (1979Fildes ( , 1985, Fildes et al (2008), Ghobbar and Friend (2003), Trapero et al (2015) • Job Shop Scheduling - (B lazewicz et al, 1996, Brucker et al, 2007, Cheng et al, 1999a,b, Kiran and Smith, 1984 • Knapsack Problem - (Lin, 1998, Lust and Teghem, 2012, Pisinger, 2007, Salkin and Kluyver, 1975, Wilbaut et al, 2008 • Personnel Scheduling - (Ernst et al, 2004, Miller, 1976 • Sports Scheduling - (Kendall et al, 2010, Rasmussen andTrick, 2008) • Traveling Salesman Problem - (Bellmore and Nemhauser, 1968, Burkard et al, 1998, Cook, 2011, Lust and Teghem, 2010 • Vehicle Routing - (Archetti and Speranza, 2008, Braysy et al, 2004, Braysy and Gendreau, 2005a,b, Cordeau et al, 2002, Doerner and Schmid, 2010, Gendreau et al, 2008, Jaillet and Wagner, 2008, Laporte, 2009, Vidal et al, 2013 Of course, there are many other areas which also come under the optimization research radar. Indeed, it is difficult to think of a discipline/sector that either does not currently use optimization research, or could benefit from some form of optimization.…”