There is a need for some techniques to solve various problems in today's computing world.
Metaheuristic algorithms are one of the techniques which are capable of providing practical …

In this paper, to keep the researchers interested in nature-inspired algorithms and
optimization problems, a comprehensive survey of the group search optimizer (GSO) …

This paper proposes a novel population-based optimization method, called Aquila Optimizer
(AO), which is inspired by the Aquila's behaviors in nature during the process of catching the …

In recent years, swarm intelligence algorithms have received extensive attention and
research. Swarm intelligence algorithms are a biological heuristic method, which is widely …

Although the continuous version of ant colony optimizer (ACOR) has been successfully
applied to various problems, there is room to boost its stability and improve convergence …

Efficient task scheduling is considered as one of the main critical challenges in cloud
computing. Task scheduling is an NP-complete problem, so finding the best solution is …

One of the most crucial aspects of image segmentation is multilevel thresholding. However,
multilevel thresholding becomes increasingly more computationally complex as the number …

Medical imaging systems installed in different hospitals and labs generate images in bulk,
which could support medics to analyze infections or injuries. Manual inspection becomes …

The central cloud facilities based on virtual machines offer many benefits to reduce the
scheduling costs and improve service availability and accessibility. The approach of cloud …

This paper introduces a comprehensive survey of a new swarm intelligence optimization
algorithm so-called Harris hawks optimization (HHO) and analyzes its major features. HHO …