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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in selection hyper-heuristics

JH Drake, A Kheiri, E Özcan, EK Burke - European Journal of Operational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hyper-heuristics have emerged as a way to raise the level of generality of search techniques
for computational search problems. This is in contrast to many approaches, which represent …

Comprehensive taxonomies of nature-and bio-inspired optimization: Inspiration versus algorithmic behavior, critical analysis recommendations

D Molina, J Poyatos, JD Ser, S García, A Hussain… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Springer
In recent algorithmic family simulates different biological processes observed in Nature in
order to efficiently address complex optimization problems. In the last years the number of …

Hyper-heuristics: A survey of the state of the art

EK Burke, M Gendreau, M Hyde, G Kendall… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the
goal of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search …

Hyflex: A benchmark framework for cross-domain heuristic search

G Ochoa, M Hyde, T Curtois… - … , EvoCOP 2012, Málaga …, 2012 - Springer
This paper presents HyFlex, a software framework for the development of cross-domain
search methodologies. The framework features a common software interface for dealing with …

A sequence-based selection hyper-heuristic utilising a hidden Markov model

A Kheiri, E Keedwell - Proceedings of the 2015 annual conference on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Selection hyper-heuristics are optimisation methods that operate at the level above
traditional (meta-) heuristics. Their task is to evaluate low level heuristics and determine …

A tensor based hyper-heuristic for nurse rostering

S Asta, E Özcan, T Curtois - Knowledge-based systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Nurse rostering is a well-known highly constrained scheduling problem requiring
assignment of shifts to nurses satisfying a variety of constraints. Exact algorithms may fail to …

Assessing hyper-heuristic performance

N Pillay, R Qu - Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Limited attention has been paid to assessing the generality performance of hyper-heuristics.
The performance of hyper-heuristics has been predominately assessed in terms of optimality …

Fair-share ILS: a simple state-of-the-art iterated local search hyperheuristic

S Adriaensen, T Brys, A Nowé - … of the 2014 annual conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In this work we present a simple state-of-the-art selection hyperheuristic called Fair-Share
Iterated Local Search (FS-ILS). FS-ILS is an iterated local search method using a …

Adaptive evolutionary algorithms and extensions to the hyflex hyper-heuristic framework

G Ochoa, J Walker, M Hyde, T Curtois - … 1-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part II 12, 2012 - Springer
HyFlex is a recently proposed software framework for implementing hyper-heuristics and
domain-independent heuristic optimisation algorithms [13]. Although it was originally …