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Optimization algorithms are essential for solving many real-world problems. However, challenges such as getting trapped in local minima and effectively balancing exploration and exploitation often limit their performance. This paper…
This article proposes the Ecological Cycle Optimizer (ECO), a novel metaheuristic algorithm inspired by energy flow and material cycling in ecosystems. ECO draws an analogy between the dynamic process of solving optimization problems and…
The Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is a swarm intelligence meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by the hunting behaviour and social hierarchy of grey wolves in nature. This paper analyses the use of chaos theory in this algorithm to improve its…
Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) suffers from limited global search ability, slow convergence, and tendency to fall into local optima, restricting its effectiveness in hyperparameter optimization for machine learning models. To address…
Task scheduling is a critical research challenge in cloud computing, a transformative technology widely adopted across industries. Although numerous scheduling solutions exist, they predominantly optimize singular or limited metrics such as…
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Self-adaptive software (SAS) can reconfigure itself to adapt to the changing environment at runtime, aiming for continually optimizing conflicted non-functional objectives, e.g., response time, energy consumption, throughput and cost etc.…
This work presents a comparative evaluation of four population-based optimization algorithms for workflow scheduling in cloud-fog environments. These algorithms are as follows: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA),…
Swarm intelligence and bio-inspired algorithms form a hot topic in the developments of new algorithms inspired by nature. These nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms can be based on swarm intelligence, biological systems, physical and…
Stochastic optimization algorithms are often used to solve complex large-scale optimization problems in various fields. To date, there have been a number of stochastic optimization algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm, Cuckoo Search, Tabu…
Nature-inspired algorithms are commonly used for solving the various optimization problems. In past few decades, various researchers have proposed a large number of nature-inspired algorithms. Some of these algorithms have proved to be very…
Traditional methods present a very restrictive range of applications, mainly limited by the features of the function to be optimized and of the constraint functions. In contrast, evolutionary algorithms present almost no restriction to the…
This paper presents a multi-objective version of the Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm called the Grid-based Multi-objective Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm (GMOCSO). Convergence and diversity preservation are the two main goals pursued by…
A new metaheuristic optimisation algorithm, called Cuckoo Search (CS), was developed recently by Yang and Deb (2009). This paper presents a more extensive comparison study using some standard test functions and newly designed stochastic…
Metaheuristics are popularly used in various fields, and they have attracted much attention in the scientific and industrial communities. In recent years, the number of new metaheuristic names has been continuously growing. Generally, the…
Swarm intelligence optimization algorithms can be adopted in swarm robotics for target searching tasks in a 2-D or 3-D space by treating the target signal strength as fitness values. Many current works in the literature have achieved good…
Assigning tasks efficiently in cloud computing is a challenging problem and is considered an NP-hard problem. Many researchers have used metaheuristic algorithms to solve it, but these often struggle to handle dynamic workloads and explore…
Efficiency of an optimization process is largely determined by the search algorithm and its fundamental characteristics. In a given optimization, a single type of algorithm is used in most applications. In this paper, we will investigate…
This article presents a comparative analysis of GPU-parallelized implementations of the quantum-inspired evolutionary optimization (QIEO) approach and one of the well-known classical metaheuristic techniques, the genetic algorithm (GA). The…