This special issue contains 15 papers submitted by the participants of the 8th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS 2021), which was held in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., online due to COVID-19 restrictions, on March 22–24, 2021.

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第八届国际变邻域搜索会议 (ICVNS 2021) 特刊

本期特刊包含第八届国际可变邻域搜索会议 (ICVNS 2021) 的参与者提交的 15 篇论文，该会议由于 COVID-19 的限制，于 2021 年 3 月 22 日至 24 日在阿联酋阿布扎比在线举行。