4th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS'16)

In this issue we present a peer-reviewed selection of short papers that were accepted for presentation in the 4th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS'16) which was held in Málaga, Spain, during October 3-5, 2016. This conference is devoted to the Variable Neighborhood Search metaheuristic which was originally proposed by Nenad Mladenović and Pierre Hansen. This methodology is currently consolidated as a general framework to solve hard optimization problems and it is widely used all around the world.