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The paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of some heuristic search algorithms in the context of autonomous systems and robotics. The objective of the study is to evaluate and compare the performance of different search…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Aya Kherrour , Marco Robol , Marco Roveri , Paolo Giorgini

Many optimization problems admit a number of local optima, among which there is the global optimum. For these problems, various heuristic optimization methods have been proposed. Comparing the results of these solvers requires the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Gianfranco Chicco , Andrea Mazza

A lot of real-world engineering problems represent dynamicity with nests of nonlinearities due to highly complex network of exponential functions or large number of differential equations interacting together. Such search spaces are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mojtaba Moattari , Emad Roshandel , Shima Kamyab , Zohreh Azimifar

A number of optimization algorithms have been inspired by the physics of Newtonian motion. Here, we ask the question: do algorithms themselves obey some ``natural laws of motion,'' and can they be derived by an application of these laws? We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 I. M. Ross

In the field of derivative-free optimization, both of its main branches, the deterministic and nature-inspired techniques, experienced in recent years substantial advancement. In this paper, we provide an extensive computational comparison…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jakub Kudela

Whilst the partial differential equations that govern the dynamics of our world have been studied in great depth for centuries, solving them for complex, high-dimensional conditions and domains still presents an incredibly large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Edward Small

Algorithms for continuous optimization problems have a rich history of design and innovation over the past several decades, in which mathematical analysis of their convergence and complexity properties plays a central role. Besides their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Stephen J. Wright

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

This paper proposes a novel population-based meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, called Perfectionism Search Algorithm (PSA), which is based on the psychological aspects of perfectionism. The PSA algorithm takes inspiration from one of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 A. Ghodousian , M. Mollakazemiha , N. Karimian

Mathematical optimization is one of the cornerstones of modern engineering research and practice. Yet, throughout all application domains, mathematical optimization is, for the most part, considered to be a numerical discipline.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Adrian Hauswirth , Zhiyu He , Saverio Bolognani , Gabriela Hug , Florian Dörfler

Metaheuristics are universal optimization algorithms which should be used for solving difficult problems, unsolvable by classic approaches. In this paper we aim at constructing novel socio-cognitive metaheuristic based on castes, and apply…

In the photonic design problem, a scientist or engineer chooses the physical parameters of a device to best match some desired device behavior. Many instances of the photonic design problem can be naturally stated as a mathematical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Guillermo Angeris , Jelena Vučković , Stephen Boyd

A sketch of the chapter appearing under the same heading in the book ``New Optimization Algorithms in Physics'' (A.K. Hartmann and H. Rieger, Eds.) is given. After a general introduction to spin glasses, important aspects of heuristic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Olivier C. Martin

Designing search algorithms for finding global optima is one of the most active research fields, recently. These algorithms consist of two main categories, i.e., classic mathematical and metaheuristic algorithms. This article proposes a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Benyamin Ghojogh , Saeed Sharifian , Hoda Mohammadzade

We propose a novel, flexible algorithm for combining together metaheuristicoptimizers for non-convex optimization problems. Our approach treatsthe constituent optimizers as a team of complex agents that communicateinformation amongst each…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Sujit Pramod Khanna , Alexander Ororbia

Hamiltonian mechanics is an effective tool to represent many physical processes with concise yet well-generalized mathematical expressions. A well-modeled Hamiltonian makes it easy for researchers to analyze and forecast many related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Seungjun Lee , Haesang Yang , Woojae Seong

Most metaheuristic algorithms rely on a few searched solutions to guide later searches during the convergence process for a simple reason: the limited computing resource of a computer makes it impossible to retain all the searched…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chun-Wei Tsai , Yi-Cheng Yang , Tzu-Chieh Tang , Che-Wei Hsu

Despite the success statistical physics has enjoyed at predicting the properties of materials for given parameters, the inverse problem, identifying which material parameters produce given, desired properties, is only beginning to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-17 Marc Z. Miskin , Gurdaman S. Khaira , Juan J. de Pablo , Heinrich M. Jaeger

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