Research trends in combinatorial optimization

Real-world problems are becoming highly complex and therefore have to be solved with combinatorial optimization (CO) techniques. Motivated by the strong increase in publications on CO, 8393 articles from this research field subjected a bibliometric analysis. The corpus of literature is examined using mathematical methods novel algorithm for keyword In addition most relevant countries, organizations, authors as well their collaborations, pertinent CO problems, solution methods, application areas presented. Publications focus mainly development or enhancement metaheuristics like genetic algorithms. increasingly problem-oriented studies deal particularly real-world applications within energy sector, production data management, which increasing relevance due various global developments. demonstration trends can support researchers identifying issues regarding expanding transforming area.