An exhaustive review of the metaheuristic algorithms for search and optimization: taxonomy, applications, and open challenges

K Rajwar, K Deep, S Das - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
As the world moves towards industrialization, optimization problems become more
challenging to solve in a reasonable time. More than 500 new metaheuristic algorithms …

Metaheuristics: a comprehensive overview and classification along with bibliometric analysis

AE Ezugwu, AK Shukla, R Nath, AA Akinyelu… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
Research in metaheuristics for global optimization problems are currently experiencing an
overload of wide range of available metaheuristic-based solution approaches. Since the …

Comprehensive taxonomies of nature-and bio-inspired optimization: Inspiration versus algorithmic behavior, critical analysis recommendations

D Molina, J Poyatos, JD Ser, S García, A Hussain… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Springer
In recent algorithmic family simulates different biological processes observed in Nature in
order to efficiently address complex optimization problems. In the last years the number of …

A multi-strategy enhanced African vultures optimization algorithm for global optimization problems

R Zheng, AG Hussien, R Qaddoura… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The African vultures optimization algorithm (AVOA) is a recently proposed metaheuristic
inspired by the African vultures' behaviors. Though the basic AVOA performs very well for …

An improved discrete bat algorithm for symmetric and asymmetric traveling salesman problems

E Osaba, XS Yang, F Diaz, P Lopez-Garcia… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2016 - Elsevier
Bat algorithm is a population metaheuristic proposed in 2010 which is based on the
echolocation or bio-sonar characteristics of microbats. Since its first implementation, the bat …

Recent advances in harris hawks optimization: A comparative study and applications

AG Hussien, L Abualigah, R Abu Zitar, FA Hashim… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Harris hawk optimizer is a recent population-based metaheuristics algorithm that
simulates the hunting behavior of hawks. This swarm-based optimizer performs the …

[HTML][HTML] A review of metaheuristic algorithms for solving TSP-based scheduling optimization problems

B Toaza, D Esztergár-Kiss - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Activity-based scheduling optimization is a combinatorial problem built on the traveling
salesman problem intending to optimize people schedules considering their trips and the …

Solving capacitated vehicle routing problem using cooperative firefly algorithm

AM Altabeeb, AM Mohsen, L Abualigah… - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is a classical combinatorial optimization
problem, which has received much attention due to its main challenges as distribution …

Ant lion optimization: variants, hybrids, and applications

AS Assiri, AG Hussien, M Amin - IEEe Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO) is a recent novel algorithm developed in the literature that
simulates the foraging behavior of a Ant lions. Recently, it has been applied to a huge …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review on meta-heuristic algorithms and their classification with novel approach

H Rajabi Moshtaghi, A Toloie Eshlaghy… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - journal-aprie.com
Conventional and classical optimization methods are not efficient enough to deal with
complicated, NP-hard, high-dimensional, non-linear, and hybrid problems. In recent years …