The firefly algorithm has become an increasingly important tool of Swarm Intelligence that
has been applied in almost all areas of optimization, as well as engineering practice. Many …

Tabu search is a “higher level” heuristic procedure for solving optimization problems,
designed to guide other methods (or their component processes) to escape the trap of local …

The present study aims to optimize the engineering design and manufacturing problems
with a novel hybrid optimizer named: AOA-NM (Arithmetic optimization-Nelder mead). To …

Faced with the challenge of solving hard optimization problems that abound in the real
world, classical methods often encounter great difficulty. Vitally important applications in …

This paper presents the fundamental principles underlying tabu search as a strategy for
combinatorial optimization problems. Tabu search has achieved impressive practical …

Biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of biological organisms.
Mathematical equations that govern the distribution of organisms were first discovered and …

Graph colouring is one of those rare examples in the mathematical sciences of a problem
that, while easy to state and visualise, has many aspects that are exceptionally difficult to …

Metaheuristics are the most exciting development in approximate optimization techniques of
the last two decades. They have had widespread successes in attacking a variety of difficult …

The timetabling problem consists in scheduling a sequence of lectures between teachers
and students in a prefixed period of time (typically a week), satisfying a set of constraints of …

This paper describes the Simulated Annealing algorithm and the physical analogy on which
it is based. Some significant theoretical results are presented before describing how the …