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Automated design of metaheuristic algorithms offers an attractive avenue to reduce human effort and gain enhanced performance beyond human intuition. Current automated methods design algorithms within a fixed structure and operate from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Qi Zhao , Tengfei Liu , Bai Yan , Qiqi Duan , Jian Yang , Yuhui Shi

In the last few years, the formulation of real-world optimization problems and their efficient solution via metaheuristic algorithms has been a catalyst for a myriad of research studies. In spite of decades of historical advancements on the…

Metaheuristics are prominent gradient-free optimizers for solving hard problems that do not meet the rigorous mathematical assumptions of analytical solvers. The canonical manual optimizer design could be laborious, untraceable and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Qi Zhao , Bai Yan , Taiwei Hu , Xianglong Chen , Qiqi Duan , Jian Yang , Yuhui Shi

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

Metaheuristics are widely recognized gradient-free solvers to hard problems that do not meet the rigorous mathematical assumptions of conventional solvers. The automated design of metaheuristic algorithms provides an attractive path to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Qi Zhao , Bai Yan , Taiwei Hu , Xianglong Chen , Jian Yang , Shi Cheng , Yuhui Shi

Complex engineering problems can be modelled as optimisation problems. For instance, optimising engines, materials, components, structure, aerodynamics, navigation, control, logistics, and planning is essential in aerospace. Metaheuristics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Carlos Alberto da Silva Junior , Marconi de Arruda Pereira , Angelo Passaro

The current investigations on hyper-heuristics design have sprung up in two different flavours: heuristics that choose heuristics and heuristics that generate heuristics. In the latter, the goal is to develop a problem-domain independent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-06-10 German Terrazas , Dario Landa-Silva , Natalio Krasnogor

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

Network operation relies on heuristics to solve many tasks rapidly and efficiently across the protocol stack. These heuristics are the result of thorough human-driven design rooted in expert knowledge of the target system and problem.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Reza Namvar , José Gallego , Jose A. Ayala-Romero , Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou , Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Albert Banchs , Marco Fiore

The art of heuristic design has traditionally been a human pursuit. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate code for search heuristics, their application has largely been confined to adjusting simple functions within human-crafted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Guorui Quan , Mingfei Sun , Manuel López-Ibáñez

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

Despite the increasing popularity of metaheuristics, many crucially important questions remain unanswered. There are two important issues: theoretical framework and the gap between theory and applications. At the moment, the practice of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Xin-She Yang

Automated planning remains one of the most general paradigms in Artificial Intelligence, providing means of solving problems coming from a wide variety of domains. One of the key factors restricting the applicability of planning is its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Pawel Gomoluch , Dalal Alrajeh , Alessandra Russo , Antonio Bucchiarone

Metaheuristic algorithms are currently widely used to solve a variety of optimization problems across various industries. This article discusses the application of a metaheuristic algorithm to optimize the hierarchical architecture of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ruslan Zakirzyanov

Machine learning has made tremendous progress in recent years and received large amounts of public attention. Though we are still far from designing a full artificially intelligent agent, machine learning has brought us many applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Steven Abreu

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

In the power and energy systems area, a progressive increase of literature contributions containing applications of metaheuristic algorithms is occurring. In many cases, these applications are merely aimed at proposing the testing of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Gianfranco Chicco , Andrea Mazza

Machine learning has enabled significant benefits in diverse fields, but, with a few exceptions, has had limited impact on computer architecture. Recent work, however, has explored broader applicability for design, optimization, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Drew D. Penney , Lizhong Chen

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

Following decades of sustained improvement, metaheuristics are one of the great success stories of optimization research. However, in order for research in metaheuristics to avoid fragmentation and a lack of reproducibility, there is a…

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