Web service composition concerns the building of new value added services by integrating
the sets of existing web services. Due to the seamless proliferation of web services, it …

The optimization field suffers from the metaphor-based “pseudo-novel” or “fancy” optimizers.
Most of these cliché methods mimic animals' searching trends and possess a small …

A recent set of overused population-based methods have been published in recent years.
Despite their popularity, most of them have uncertain, immature performance, partially done …

COVID-19 is currently raging worldwide, with more patients being diagnosed every day. It
usually is diagnosed by examining pathological photographs of the patient's lungs. There is …

Stochastic optimization has been found in many applications, especially for several local
optima problems, because of their ability to explore and exploit various zones of the feature …

Many population-dependent solutions have recently been suggested. Despite their
widespread adoption in many applications, we are still researching using suggested …

In recent years, a variety of meta-heuristic nature-inspired algorithms have been proposed to
solve complex optimization problems. However, these algorithms suffer from the …

Introduction The main feature selection methods include filter, wrapper-based, and
embedded methods. Because of its characteristics, the wrapper method must include a …

Cloud service composition builds new value-added services by combining existing single
services. However, because of the exuberant growth of cloud services and the varying …

The sine cosine algorithm (SCA) is a well-known meta-heuristic optimization algorithm. SCA
has received much attention in various optimization fields due to its simple structure and …