Hi,

Here are a couple of books, the first a "classic":

1. "Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization" by Aarts and Lenstra, link: http://www.amazon.com/Local-Search-Combinatorial-Optimization-Emile/dp/0691115222

2. "Stochastic local search" by Hoos an Stützle, links: http://www.sls-book.net and an almost complete previous pdf version: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/SLS-Internal/

Hi,

You can read the following survey:

* Metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization: Overview and conceptual comparison by C. Blum and A. Roli. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/937503.937505

Or the following book:

* Metaheuristics: From Design to Implementation by El-Ghazali Talbi. Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470278587.html

In addition to those already suggested, I would recommend the classic:

Handbook of Metaheuristics

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1665-5

[Note there are two editions, the first (2003) by Glover and Kochenberger, the second (2010) by Gendreau and Potvin.]

Since you're looking to hybridise local search with a GA, also check out previous research in this area, nowadays known as 'memetic algorithms', e.g.:

Handbook of Memetic Algorithms

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-23247-3

Note there's a chapter on local search in the latter book:

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-23247-3_3

The book "Modeling, Analysis and Applications in Metaheuristic Computing" by P.-Y. Yin (from 2012) looks solid. 

As Michael mentioned in his post, "handbook of metaheuristics" is an excellent source.

Hi,

You can go through the links given below for the following books...I found these books to be excellent in evolutionary techniques (ie optimization techniques)

1.New optimization technique in engineering by Godfrey.C.Onwubolu & B.V.Babu

2.On Gradient Based Local Search Methods in Unconstrained Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization

I hope you would find these useful.......

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YRsq-Pz0kAAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-70928-2_11#page-2

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296636431_Codes_in_MATLAB_for_Particle_Swarm_Optimization

Code Codes in MATLAB for Particle Swarm Optimization

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297245624_Particle_Swarm_Optimization_Algorithm_and_its_Codes_in_MATLAB

Research Particle Swarm Optimization: Algorithm and its Codes in MATLAB

See

https://www.elsevier.com/books/stochastic-local-search/hoos/978-1-55860-872-6

In the book, several techniques are presented, some of them have been modified with other methods to build other search startegies