tion  Mauricio G. C. Resende0  and Celso C. Ribeiro0  (0)  Modeling and Optimization Group (MOP), Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA  (0)  Instituto de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  Continuous GRASP, or C-GRASP, extends GRASP to the domain of continuous box-constrained global optimization. The algorithm searches the solution space over a dynamic grid. Each iteration of C-GRASP consists of two phases. In the construction (or diversification) phase, a greedy randomized solution is constructed. In the local search (or intensification) phase, a local search algorithm 