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Title: Do not expect to learn something new
Review: Hi,I am a computer scientist, and I have some experience in heuristics design in many optimization problems. I have carefully read the book, and I didn't found anything really new inside. All what you will learn is : "It depends on the problem".All the book treats cooking ideas (cuisine), nothing scientifically proved. The reasonning in the book is so evident, so simple.I appeciated in the book the "exhotic" problems that the authors gave. They allow the reader to think. But these problems have nothing to do within the context they are inserted in. By solving them, you will not learn anything in heuristics theory.In general, the book is not detailed enough, not formal enough, very few brilliant ideas are inside. The ideas are explained in textual form, etc. All is cuisine and heuristics with questionable experiments, etc.An aware computer scientist
