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Recent Advances in Selection Hyper-heuristics. / Drake, John H.; Kheiri, Ahmed; Özcan, Ender et al.
In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 285, No. 2, 01.09.2020, p. 405-428.

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Drake, JH, Kheiri, A, Özcan, E & Burke, EK 2020, 'Recent Advances in Selection Hyper-heuristics', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 285, no. 2, pp. 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.07.073

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Drake, J. H., Kheiri, A., Özcan, E., & Burke, E. K. (2020). Recent Advances in Selection Hyper-heuristics. European Journal of Operational Research, 285(2), 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.07.073

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Drake JH, Kheiri A, Özcan E, Burke EK. Recent Advances in Selection Hyper-heuristics. European Journal of Operational Research. 2020 Sept 1;285(2):405-428. Epub 2019 Aug 7. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.07.073

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Drake, John H. ; Kheiri, Ahmed ; Özcan, Ender et al. / Recent Advances in Selection Hyper-heuristics. In: European Journal of Operational Research. 2020 ; Vol. 285, No. 2. pp. 405-428.

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