Metaheuristic optimization algorithms: A comprehensive overview and classification of benchmark test functions

P Sharma, S Raju - Soft Computing, 2024 - Springer
This review aims to exploit a study on different benchmark test functions used to evaluate the
performance of Meta-Heuristic (MH) optimization techniques. The performance of the MH …

A comprehensive review on water cycle algorithm and its applications

M Nasir, A Sadollah, YH Choi, JH Kim - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, significant attentions have been devoted to design of metaheuristic
optimization algorithms in order to solve optimization problems. Metaheuristic optimizers are …

A framework to expedite joint energy-reserve payment cost minimization using a custom-designed method based on mixed integer genetic algorithm

M Hamian, A Darvishan, M Hosseinzadeh… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a methodology has been proposed to decrease the solution time of the joint
energy-reserve market clearing problem under Payment Cost Minimization (PCM) …

Gradient-based grey wolf optimizer with Gaussian walk: Application in modelling and prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic

S Khalilpourazari, HH Doulabi, AÖ Çiftçioğlu… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
This research proposes a new type of Grey Wolf optimizer named Gradient-based Grey Wolf
Optimizer (GGWO). Using gradient information, we accelerated the convergence of the …

Deterministic and uncertainty crude oil price forecasting based on outlier detection and modified multi-objective optimization algorithm

C Wu, J Wang, Y Hao - Resources Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•A hybrid forecasting system is developed for crude oil price forecasting.•The
improved multi-objective water cycle algorithm is proposed.•The proposed prediction system …

Boosting quantum rotation gate embedded slime mould algorithm

C Yu, AA Heidari, X Xue, L Zhang, H Chen… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
The slime mould algorithm is an interesting swarm-based algorithm proposed in 2020 based
on this entity's trajectory finding abilities in nature. It simulates slime mould movement …

Gaussian bare-bones water cycle algorithm for optimal reactive power dispatch in electrical power systems

AA Heidari, RA Abbaspour, AR Jordehi - Applied soft computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Water cycle algorithm (WCA) is one of the efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms
inspired by hydrological cycle in nature. WCA can outperform several robust and efficient …

A discrete water cycle algorithm for solving the symmetric and asymmetric traveling salesman problem

E Osaba, J Del Ser, A Sadollah, MN Bilbao… - Applied Soft …, 2018 - Elsevier
The water cycle algorithm (WCA) is a nature-inspired meta-heuristic recently contributed to
the community in 2012, which finds its motivation in the natural surface runoff phase in water …

Multi-objective optimal scheduling of a microgrid using oppositional gradient-based grey wolf optimizer

A Rajagopalan, K Nagarajan, OD Montoya… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Optimal energy management has become a challenging task to accomplish in today's
advanced energy systems. If energy is managed in the most optimal manner, tremendous …

An efficient chaotic gradient-based optimizer for feature selection

DS Abd Elminaam, SA Ibrahim, EH Houssein… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many applications, selecting the optimal features is a difficult task. Numerous In
optimization problems, eg, feature selection (FS) problem, have been solved using …