Abstract Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is an optimization algorithm developed by
Mirjalili and Lewis in 2016. An overview of WOA is described in this paper, rooted from the …

Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized natural or
artificial systems. Monarch butterfly optimization (MBO) algorithm is a class of swarm …

Skin cancer is one of the worst cancers nowadays that poses a severe threat to the health
and safety of individuals. Therefore, skin cancer classification and early diagnosis are …

Metaheuristics are an impressive area of research with extremely important improvements in
the solution of intractable optimization problems. Major advances have been made since the …

Image segmentation is one of the most significant and required procedures in pre-
processing and analyzing images. Metaheuristic optimization algorithms are used to solve a …

Moth flame optimization (MFO) is a swarm-based algorithm with mediocre performance and
marginal originality proposed in recent years. It tried to simulate the fantasy navigation mode …

In this paper, we proposed an enhanced reptile search algorithm (RSA) for global
optimization and selected optimal thresholding values for multilevel image segmentation …

Recently, a novel virus called COVID-19 has pervasive worldwide, starting from China and
moving to all the world to eliminate a lot of persons. Many attempts have been experimented …

Real-world engineering design problems are widespread in various research disciplines in
both industry and industry. Many optimization algorithms have been employed to address …

Moth-flame optimization (MFO) is a widely used nature-inspired algorithm characterized by a
simple structure with simple parameters. However, for some complex optimization tasks …