This timely review book summarizes thestate-of-the-art developments in nature-inspired optimization algorithms andtheir applications in engineering. Algorithms and topics include the overviewand history of nature-inspired algorithms, discrete firefly algorithm, discretecuckoo search, plant propagation algorithm, parameter-free bat algorithm,gravitational search, biogeography-based algorithm, differential evolution,particle swarm optimization and others. Applications include vehicle routing,swarming robots, discrete and combinatorial optimization, clustering ofwireless sensor networks, cell formation, economic load dispatch, metamodeling,surrogated-assisted cooperative co-evolution, data fitting and reverseengineering as well as other case studies in engineering. This book will be anideal reference for researchers, lecturers, graduates and engineers who areinterested in nature-inspired computation, artificial intelligence andcomputational intelligence. It can also serv
e as a reference for relevantcourses in computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, naturalcomputation, engineering optimization and data mining.
Flower Pollination Algorithm and its Applications in Engineering.- An Evolutionary Discrete Firefly Algorithm with Novel Operators for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with TimeWindows.- The Plant Propagation Algorithm for Discrete Optimisation: The Case of the Travelling Salesman Problem.- Enhancing Cooperative Coevolution with Surrogate-Assisted Local Search.- Cuckoo Search: From Cuckoo Reproduction Strategy to CombinatorialOptimization.- Clustering Optimization for WSN based on Nature-Inspired Algorithms.- Discrete Firefly Algorithm for Recruiting Task in a Swarm of Robots.- Nature-Inspired Swarm Intelligence for Data Fitting in Reverse Engineering: Recent Advances and FutureTrends.- A Novel Fast Optimisation Algorithm Using Differential Evolution Algorithm Optimisation and Meta-Modelling Approach.- A Hybridization of Runner-Based and Seed-Based Plant PropagationAlgorithm.- Gravitational Search Algorithm Applied to Cell Formation Problem.- Parameterless Bat Algorithm and
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