[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the whale optimization algorithm: theoretical foundation, improvements, and hybridizations

MH Nadimi-Shahraki, H Zamani… - … Methods in Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Despite the simplicity of the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) and its success in solving
some optimization problems, it faces many issues. Thus, WOA has attracted scholars' …

A critical review of moth-flame optimization algorithm and its variants: structural reviewing, performance evaluation, and statistical analysis

H Zamani, MH Nadimi-Shahraki, S Mirjalili… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
A growing trend of introducing new metaheuristic algorithms and their improvements is
observed with almost the same inherited weaknesses. The main reason is that a few studies …

A multi-objective mutation-based dynamic Harris Hawks optimization for botnet detection in IoT

FS Gharehchopogh, B Abdollahzadeh, S Barshandeh… - Internet of Things, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing trend toward using the Internet of Things (IoT) increased the number of
intrusions and intruders annually. Hence, the integration, confidentiality, and access to …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus mask protection algorithm: A new bio-inspired optimization algorithm and its applications

Y Yuan, Q Shen, S Wang, J Ren, D Yang… - Journal of Bionic …, 2023 - Springer
Nowadays, meta-heuristic algorithms are attracting widespread interest in solving high-
dimensional nonlinear optimization problems. In this paper, a COVID-19 prevention-inspired …

[HTML][HTML] CPPE: An improved phasmatodea population evolution algorithm with chaotic maps

TY Wu, H Li, SC Chu - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Phasmatodea Population Evolution (PPE) algorithm, inspired by the evolution of the
phasmatodea population, is a recently proposed meta-heuristic algorithm that has been …

[HTML][HTML] Binary starling murmuration optimizer algorithm to select effective features from medical data

MH Nadimi-Shahraki, Z Asghari Varzaneh, H Zamani… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Feature selection is an NP-hard problem to remove irrelevant and redundant features with
no predictive information to increase the performance of machine learning algorithms. Many …

A modified oppositional chaotic local search strategy based aquila optimizer to design an effective controller for vehicle cruise control system

S Ekinci, D Izci, L Abualigah, RA Zitar - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we propose a real proportional-integral-derivative plus second-order derivative
(PIDD2) controller as an efficient controller for vehicle cruise control systems to address the …

[HTML][HTML] A chaotic-based interactive autodidactic school algorithm for data clustering problems and its application on COVID-19 disease detection

FS Gharehchopogh, AA Khargoush - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
In many disciplines, including pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning, image
analysis, and bioinformatics, data clustering is a common analytical tool for data statistics …

An evolutionary crow search algorithm equipped with interactive memory mechanism to optimize artificial neural network for disease diagnosis

H Zamani, MH Nadimi-Shahraki - Biomedical Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Artificial neural network (ANN) is an information processing paradigm that loosely models
the thinking patterns of the human brain with specifications such as real-time learning, self …

[HTML][HTML] MMKE: Multi-trial vector-based monkey king evolution algorithm and its applications for engineering optimization problems

MH Nadimi-Shahraki, S Taghian, H Zamani, S Mirjalili… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Monkey king evolution (MKE) is a population-based differential evolutionary algorithm in
which the single evolution strategy and the control parameter affect the convergence and the …