An exhaustive review of the metaheuristic algorithms for search and optimization: taxonomy, applications, and open challenges

K Rajwar, K Deep, S Das - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
As the world moves towards industrialization, optimization problems become more
challenging to solve in a reasonable time. More than 500 new metaheuristic algorithms …

Salp swarm optimization: a critical review

M Castelli, L Manzoni, L Mariot, MS Nobile… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the crowded environment of bio-inspired population-based metaheuristics, the Salp
Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm recently appeared and immediately gained a lot of …

Bio-inspired computation: Where we stand and what's next

J Del Ser, E Osaba, D Molina, XS Yang… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, the research community has witnessed an explosion of literature dealing
with the mimicking of behavioral patterns and social phenomena observed in nature towards …

Macroscopic resting-state brain dynamics are best described by linear models

E Nozari, MA Bertolero, J Stiso, L Caciagli… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
It is typically assumed that large networks of neurons exhibit a large repertoire of nonlinear
behaviours. Here we challenge this assumption by leveraging mathematical models derived …

Ensemble of differential evolution variants

G Wu, X Shen, H Li, H Chen, A Lin, PN Suganthan - Information Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most popular and efficient evolutionary algorithms for
numerical optimization and it has gained much success in a series of academic benchmark …

[HTML][HTML] A prescription of methodological guidelines for comparing bio-inspired optimization algorithms

A LaTorre, D Molina, E Osaba, J Poyatos… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bio-inspired optimization (including Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence) is a
growing research topic with many competitive bio-inspired algorithms being proposed every …

A carnivorous plant algorithm for solving global optimization problems

KM Ong, P Ong, CK Sia - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel metaheuristic algorithm, namely, carnivorous plant algorithm (CPA),
inspired by how the carnivorous plants adapting to survive in the harsh environment, was …

Q-learning based vegetation evolution for numerical optimization and wireless sensor network coverage optimization

R Zhong, F Peng, J Yu, M Munetomo - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Vegetation evolution (VEGE) is a newly proposed meta-heuristic algorithm (MA) with
excellent exploitation but relatively weak exploration capacity. We thus focus on further …

Is the brain macroscopically linear? A system identification of resting state dynamics

E Nozari, MA Bertolero, J Stiso, L Caciagli… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
A central challenge in the computational modeling of neural dynamics is the trade-off
between accuracy and simplicity. At the level of individual neurons, nonlinear dynamics are …

Infeasibility and structural bias in differential evolution

F Caraffini, AV Kononova, D Corne - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Structural bias is a recently identified property of optimisation algorithms, causing them to
favour certain regions of the search space over others, independently of the objective …