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Taking inspiration from nature for meta-heuristics has proven popular and relatively successful. Many are inspired by the collective intelligence exhibited by insects, fish and birds. However, there is a question over their scalability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Darren M. Chitty , Elizabeth Wanner , Rakhi Parmar , Peter R. Lewis

Almost all optimization algorithms have algorithm-dependent parameters, and the setting of such parameter values can largely influence the behaviour of the algorithm under consideration. Thus, proper parameter tuning should be carried out…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Geethu Joy , Christian Huyck , Xin-She Yang

In the last years, one of the fields of artificial intelligence that has been investigated the most is nature-inspired computing. The research done on this specific topic showcases the interest that sparks in researchers and practitioners,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Eneko Osaba , Gorka Benguria , Jesus L. Lobo , Josu Diaz-de-Arcaya , Juncal Alonso , Iñaki Etxaniz

In [1], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature selection and evolutionary algorithms. In this chapter, we focus on optimization algorithms for enhancing data analytic process, i.e., we propose to explore applications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Flower pollination is an intriguing process in the natural world. Its evolutionary characteristics can be used to design new optimization algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm, namely, flower pollination algorithm, inspired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Xin-She Yang

Evolutionary and bioinspired computation are crucial for efficiently addressing complex optimization problems across diverse application domains. By mimicking processes observed in nature, like evolution itself, these algorithms offer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daniel Molina , Javier Del Ser , Javier Poyatos , Francisco Herrera

Nature features a plethora of extraordinary photonic architectures that have been optimized through natural evolution. While numerical optimization is increasingly and successfully used in photonics, it has yet to replicate any of these…

Evolution Strategies are inspired in biology and part of a larger research field known as Evolutionary Algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-30 Pedro A. F. Cruz , Delfim F. M. Torres

Evolutionary Algorithms are naturally inspired approximation optimisation algorithms that usually interfere with science problems when common mathematical methods are unable to provide a good solution or finding the exact solution requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Mohammed ElKomy

Purpose: Optimization challenges in science, engineering, and real-world applications often involve complex, high-dimensional, and multimodal search spaces. Traditional optimization methods frequently struggle with local optima entrapment,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sreeja Singh , Tamal Ghosh

Nature has long inspired the development of swarm intelligence (SI), a key branch of artificial intelligence that models collective behaviors observed in biological systems for solving complex optimization problems. Particle swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , P. N. Suganthan

In this paper, the idea of a new artificial intelligence based optimization algorithm, which is inspired from the nature of vortex, has been provided briefly. As also a bio-inspired computation algorithm, the idea is generally focused on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Utku Kose , Ahmet Arslan

All swarm-intelligence-based optimization algorithms use some stochastic components to increase the diversity of solutions during the search process. Such randomization is often represented in terms of random walks. However, it is not yet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Xin-She Yang , M. Karamanoglu , T. O. Ting , Y. X. Zhao

This paper proposes a new numerical optimization algorithm inspired by the strawberry plant for solving complicated engineering problems. Plants like strawberry develop both runners and roots for propagation and search for water resources…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-29 F. Merrikh-Bayat

Nature-inspired algorithms are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. This paper intends to provide a detailed description of a new Firefly Algorithm (FA) for multimodal optimization applications. We will compare the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Xin-She Yang

Many optimization problems in engineering and industrial design applications can be formulated as optimization problems with highly nonlinear objectives, subject to multiple complex constraints. Solving such optimization problems requires…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Xin-She Yang

Taking the role of a computer naturalist, a journey is taken through bio inspired algorithms taking account on algorithms which are inspired on living being behaviors. A compilation of algorithms is made considering several reviews or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Luis Torres-Treviño

Biology-derived algorithms are an important part of computational sciences, which are essential to many scientific disciplines and engineering applications. Many computational methods are derived from or based on the analogy to natural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Xin-She Yang

A swarm intelligence-based optimization algorithm, named Duck Swarm Algorithm (DSA), is proposed in this study, which is inspired by the searching for food sources and foraging behaviors of the duck swarm. Two rules are modeled from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mengjian Zhang , Guihua Wen

The Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm (AFSA) is inspired by the ecological behaviors of fish schooling in nature, viz., the preying, swarming and following behaviors. Owing to a number of salient properties, which include flexibility, fast…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Farhad Pourpanah , Ran Wang , Chee Peng Lim , Xi-Zhao Wang , Danial Yazdani