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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Gustavo H. de Rosa , Mateus Roder , João Paulo Papa , Claudio F. G. dos Santos

Metaheuristics are stochastic optimization algorithms that mimic natural processes to find optimal solutions to complex problems. The success of metaheuristics largely depends on the ability to effectively explore and exploit the search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Salar Farahmand-Tabar

Research on new optimization algorithms is often funded based on the motivation that such algorithms might improve the capabilities to deal with real-world and industrially relevant optimization challenges. Besides a huge variety of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ramses Sala , Ralf Müller

The Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is recognized as a novel meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by the social leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism of grey wolves. It is well-known for its simple parameter setting, fast convergence speed, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianhua Jiang , Ziying Zhao , Weihua Li , Keqin Li

Metaheuristic algorithms such as particle swarm optimization, firefly algorithm and harmony search are now becoming powerful methods for solving many tough optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a new metaheuristic method, the Bat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-29 Xin-She Yang

Optimization is key to solve many problems in computational biology. Global optimization methods provide a robust methodology, and metaheuristics in particular have proven to be the most efficient methods for many applications. Despite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Jose A Egea , David Henriques , Thomas Cokelaer , Alejandro F Villaverde , Julio R Banga , Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Metaheuristic algorithms are often nature-inspired, and they are becoming very powerful in solving global optimization problems. More than a dozen of major metaheuristic algorithms have been developed over the last three decades, and there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Xin-She Yang

Optimization problems with more than one objective consist in a very attractive topic for researchers due to its applicability in real-world situations. Over the years, the research effort in the Computational Intelligence field resulted in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 F. B. Lima Neto , I. M. C. Albuquerque , J. B. Monteiro Filho

Meta-heuristic algorithms are widely used to tackle complex optimization problems, including nonlinear, multimodal, and high-dimensional tasks. However, many existing methods suffer from premature convergence, limited exploration, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Zhaoqi Sun , Qingsong Wang

In this paper we present a metaheuristic for global optimization called General Algorithmic Search (GAS). Specifically, GAS is a stochastic, single-objective method that evolves a swarm of agents in search of a global extremum. Numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Sergio Hernández , Guillem Duran , José M. Amigó

Nowadays, we are immersed in tens of newly-proposed evolutionary and swam-intelligence metaheuristics, which makes it very difficult to choose a proper one to be applied on a specific optimization problem at hand. On the other hand, most of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Hamid Reza Boveiri , Raouf Khayami

Metaheuristic algorithms are becoming an important part of modern optimization. A wide range of metaheuristic algorithms have emerged over the last two decades, and many metaheuristics such as particle swarm optimization are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Xin-She Yang

In this paper, a new meta-heuristic algorithm, called beetle swarm optimization algorithm, is proposed by enhancing the performance of swarm optimization through beetle foraging principles. The performance of 23 benchmark functions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Tiantian Wang , Long Yang

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

The global optimization have the very extensive applications in econometrics, science and engineering. However, the global optimization for non-convex objective functions is particularly difficult since most of the existing global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Da-Zheng Feng , Han-Zhe Feng , Hai-Qin Zhang

Metaheuristic search methods have proven to be essential tools for tackling complex optimization challenges, but their full potential is often constrained by conventional algorithmic frameworks. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Abdel-Rahman Hedar , Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim , Wael Deabes , Youseef Alotaibi , Kheir Eddine Bouazza

This review examines over 150 new metaheuristics of the last six years (between 2019 and 2024), underscoring their profound influence and performance. Over the past three decades, more than 500 new metaheuristic algorithms have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tansel Dokeroglu , Deniz Canturk , Tayfun Kucukyilmaz

Metaheuristic algorithms are methods devised to efficiently solve computationally challenging optimization problems. Researchers have taken inspiration from various natural and physical processes alike to formulate meta-heuristics that have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Aritra Marik , Rishav Pramanik

Metaheuristic algorithms are essential for solving complex optimization problems in different fields. However, the difficulty in comparing and rating these algorithms remains due to the wide range of performance metrics and problem…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Evgenia-Maria K. Goula , Dimitris G. Sotiropoulos

Optimization aims at selecting a feasible set of parameters in an attempt to solve a particular problem, being applied in a wide range of applications, such as operations research, machine learning fine-tuning, and control engineering,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Gustavo H. de Rosa , Douglas Rodrigues , João P. Papa