Corresponding author.Pei Wang was born in 1982. He received his B.S. degree in systems engineering and M.S. degree in management science and engineering in National University of Defense Technology in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He was a vis- iting student in the Discrete Optimization Re- search Group, Ruprecht-Karls Universit~t Hei- delberg in Germany from September 2008 to September 2010. He is currently a Ph.D. can- didate in the College of Information Systems and Management, National University of Defense Technology. His research interests include space mission planning and intelligent optimization algo- rithm. E-mail: peigongliu @ hotmail.com Gerhard Reinelt was born in 1954. He is the head and a full professor in the Discrete Opti- mization Research Group, Ruprecht-Karls Uni- versit~it Heidelberg in Germany. He is also one of the coordinators in the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing in Ruprecbt-Karls Uni- versitiit Heidelberg. His research interests cover combinatorial optimization theory and applica- tions. E-mail: gerhard.reinelt @informatik. uni-heidel-berg.de Yuejin Tan was born in 1958. He is the dean and a professor in the College of Information Sys- tems and Management, National University of Defense Technology. He is the deputy director of the Chinese System Engineering Society. His research interests span from complex system the- ory to planning and optimization theory. E-mail: yj_tan@ nudt.edu.cn