title: Editorial for the special issue on automated design and assessment of heuristic search methods.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ochoa
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Preuss
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bartz-Beielstein
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schoenauer
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D048088:Informatics; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013223:Statistics as Topic