PARSEARCHOPT 2014 WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS: EDITOR'S PREFACE

This volume contains the papers presented at ParSearchOpt14: Parallel Methods for Search & Optimization held on July 18, 2014 in Vienna.

ParSearchOpt14 is the fourth workshop in this series. It is a continuation of the CP 2011 "Workshop on Parallel Methods for Constraint Solving", the 2012 Shonan Meeting on "Parallel Methods for Constraint Solving and Combinatorial Optimization", and the CPAIOR 2013 workshop on "Parallel Methods for Combinatorial Search & Optimization".

This workshop is aimed to be a forum for researchers willing to exchange ideas, theoretical frameworks, design of algorithms and methods, implementation issues, experimental results and to further boost this growing area of research through cross-fertilization.