a good (free, although i bought the dead tree) book on genetic algorithms and the like - http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/ http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/bo

a good (free, although i bought the dead tree) book on genetic algorithms and the like - http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/ http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/ (not the guy giving this talk, who also has a book - see link above/below)