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The educational competition optimizer is a recently introduced metaheuristic algorithm inspired by human behavior, originating from the dynamics of educational competition within society. Nonetheless, ECO faces constraints due to an…

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In today's day and time solving real-world complex problems has become fundamentally vital and critical task. Many of these are combinatorial problems, where optimal solutions are sought rather than exact solutions. Traditional optimization…

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Global optimization solves real-world problems numerically or analytically by minimizing their objective functions. Most of the analytical algorithms are greedy and computationally intractable. Metaheuristics are nature-inspired…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Farouq Zitouni , Saad Harous , Abdelghani Belkeram , Lokman Elhakim Baba Hammou

Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are important components of artificial intelligence, and are increasingly used across disciplines to tackle various types of challenging optimization problems. This paper demonstrates the usefulness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Elvis Han Cui , Zizhao Zhang , Culsome Junwen Chen , Weng Kee Wong

Sea Horse Optimizer (SHO) is a noteworthy metaheuristic algorithm that emulates various intelligent behaviors exhibited by sea horses, encompassing feeding patterns, male reproductive strategies, and intricate movement patterns. To mimic…

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This paper presents the Goat Optimization Algorithm (GOA), a novel bio-inspired metaheuristic optimization technique inspired by goats' adaptive foraging, strategic movement, and parasite avoidance behaviors.GOA is designed to balance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hamed Nozari , Hoessein Abdi , Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz

This study proposes a novel artificial protozoa optimizer (APO) that is inspired by protozoa in nature. The APO mimics the survival mechanisms of protozoa by simulating their foraging, dormancy, and reproductive behaviors. The APO was…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Xiaopeng Wang , Vaclav Snasel , Seyedali Mirjalili , Jeng-Shyang Pan , Lingping Kong , Hisham A. Shehadeh

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhongqiang Ma , Guohua Wu , Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan , Aijuan Song , Qizhang Luo

We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems. Here, we are concerned with the creation of these Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems to evolve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Gerard Briscoe , Suzanne Sadedin , Philippe De Wilde

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

The challenge of finding a global optimum in a solution search space with limited resources and higher accuracy has given rise to several optimization algorithms. Generally, the gradient-based optimizers converge to the global solution very…

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Achieving stable and energy-efficient locomotion is essential for humanoid robots to operate continuously in real-world applications. Existing MPC and RL approaches often rely on energy-related metrics embedded within a multi-objective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Weidong Huang , Jingwen Zhang , Jiongye Li , Shibowen Zhang , Jiayang Wu , Jiayi Wang , Hangxin Liu , Yaodong Yang , Yao Su

Nature-inspired algorithms are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. In this study, a new nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm, called bat algorithm (BA), is introduced for solving engineering optimization…

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Metaheuristic algorithms are optimization methods that are inspired by real phenomena in nature or the behavior of living beings, e.g., animals, to be used for solving complex problems, as in engineering, energy optimization, health care,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ardalan H. Awlla , Tarik A. Rashid , Ronak M. Abdullah

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Sachan Rohit Kumar , Kushwaha Dharmender Singh

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

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Xin-She Yang , Suash Deb

Optimal power flow (OPF) is a key tool for planning and operations in energy grids. The line-flow constraints, generator loading effect, piece-wise cost functions, emission, and voltage quality cost make the optimization model non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Alireza Barzegar , Ali Sadollah , Rong Su

In this article, we propose a new metaheuristic inspired by the morphogenetic cellular movements of endothelial cells (ECs) that occur during the tumor angiogenesis process. This algorithm starts with a random initial population. In each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Hernández Rodríguez , Matías Ezequiel

Most optimization problems in real life applications are often highly nonlinear. Local optimization algorithms do not give the desired performance. So, only global optimization algorithms should be used to obtain optimal solutions. This…

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