Guest editorial special issue on Parallel/Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization

Jan Gmys, Tiago Carneiro, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, Daniel Tuyttens, A comparative study of high-productivity high-performance programming languages for parallel metaheuristics Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 57, pp. 100720- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100720

Amr Abdelhafez, Gabriel Luque, Enrique Alba, Parallel execution combinatorics with metaheuristics: Comparative study Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 55, pp. 100692- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100692

H. Migallón, A. Jimeno-Morenilla, J.L. Sánchez-Romero, A. Belazi, Efficient parallel and fast convergence chaotic Jaya algorithms Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 56, pp. 100698- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100698

Guillaume Briffoteaux, Maxime Gobert, Romain Ragonnet, Jan Gmys, Mohand Mezmaz, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens, Parallel surrogate-assisted optimization: Batched Bayesian Neural Network-assisted GA versus q-EGO Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 57, pp. 100717- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100717

Carlos Soto, Bernabé Dorronsoro, Héctor Fraire, Laura Cruz-Reyes, Claudia Gomez-Santillan, Nelson Rangel, Solving the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with a novel parallel branch and bound algorithm Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 53, pp. 100632- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2019.100632

Carlos M Fernandes, Nuno Fachada, Juan LJ Laredo, JJ Merelo, Agostinho C Rosa, None, Population sizing of cellular evolutionary algorithms Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 58, pp. 100721- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100721

Mateus Boiani, Rafael Stubs Parpinelli, A GPU-based hybrid jDE algorithm applied to the 3D-AB protein structure prediction Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 58, pp. 100711- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100711

Xoán C. Pardo, Pablo Argüeso-Alejandro, Patricia González, Julio R. Banga, Ramón Doallo, Spark implementation of the enhanced Scatter Search metaheuristic: Methodology and assessment Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 59, pp. 100748- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100748

Pierre Thalamy, Benoît Piranda, Frédéric Lassabe, Julien Bourgeois, Deterministic Scaffold Assembly By Self-Reconfiguring Micro-Robotic Swarms Swarm and evolutionary computation. ,vol. 58, pp. 100722- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.SWEVO.2020.100722