A systematic review of the whale optimization algorithm: theoretical foundation, improvements, and hybridizations

MH Nadimi-Shahraki, H Zamani… - … Methods in Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Despite the simplicity of the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) and its success in solving
some optimization problems, it faces many issues. Thus, WOA has attracted scholars' …

Opposition based learning: A literature review

S Mahdavi, S Rahnamayan, K Deb - Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2018 - Elsevier
Opposition-based Learning (OBL) is a new concept in machine learning, inspired from the
opposite relationship among entities. In 2005, for the first time the concept of opposition was …

An efficient image segmentation method for skin cancer imaging using improved golden jackal optimization algorithm

EH Houssein, DA Abdelkareem, MM Emam… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] An improved grasshopper optimization algorithm with application to financial stress prediction

J Luo, H Chen, Y Xu, H Huang, X Zhao - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
This study proposed an improved grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) for continuous
optimization and applied it successfully to the financial stress prediction problem. GOA is a …

A new improved model of marine predator algorithm for optimization problems

M Ramezani, D Bahmanyar, N Razmjooy - Arabian Journal for Science …, 2021 - Springer
The marine predator algorithm is a new nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm that mimics
biological interaction between marine predators and prey. It has been also stated from the …

A hybrid OBL-based firefly algorithm with symbiotic organisms search algorithm for solving continuous optimization problems

MJ Goldanloo, FS Gharehchopogh - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
The metaheuristic optimization algorithms are relatively new optimization algorithms
introduced to solve optimization problems in recent years. For example, the firefly algorithm …

[PDF][PDF] A history of metaheuristics

K Sorensen, M Sevaux, F Glover - arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00853, 2017 - arxiv.org
A History of Metaheuristics arXiv:1704.00853v1 [cs.AI] 4 Apr 2017 Page 1 A History of
Metaheuristics ∗ Kenneth Sörensen Marc Sevaux Fred Glover Abstract This chapter …

A survey on firefly algorithms

J Li, X Wei, B Li, Z Zeng - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Firefly algorithm (FA) is one of the popular algorithms of Swarm Intelligence domain. The
literature has expanded significantly in the past few years. This paper provides a timely …

Efficient boosted grey wolf optimizers for global search and kernel extreme learning machine training

AA Heidari, RA Abbaspour, H Chen - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is a new nature-inspired algorithm that simulates the predatory
behaviors of grey wolves in nature. The GWO mainly divides the whole hunting process into …

A review of population initialization techniques for evolutionary algorithms

B Kazimipour, X Li, AK Qin - 2014 IEEE congress on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although various population initialization techniques have been employed in evolutionary
algorithms (EAs), there lacks a comprehensive survey on this research topic. To fill this gap …