A survey on optimization metaheuristics

2013 · Information Sciences · 1,580 citations · 5 from inside this corpus

Ilhem Boussaïd low, Julien Lepagnot, Patrick Siarry

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SCA: A Sine Cosine Algorithm for solving optimization problems	2016	5,696
Salp Swarm Algorithm: A bio-inspired optimizer for engineering design problems	2017	5,098
The Ant Lion Optimizer	2015	3,223
Symbiotic Organisms Search: A new metaheuristic optimization algorithm	2014	1,572
African vultures optimization algorithm: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm fo…	2021	1,428

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications	Computer Science
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms	Computer Science

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