Metaheuristics are computational procedures that intelligently lead the search process through efficient exploration of space associated with an optimization problem. With progressive outburst problems large data sets in various fields, there is ongoing quest for enhancing existing metaheuristic algorithms as well developing new ones greater accuracy and efficiency. In general, a powerful algor...

Marriage in honey bees optimization (MBO) is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm developed by inspiration of the mating and fertilization process of honey bees and is a kind of swarm intelligence optimizations. In this study we propose improved marriage in honey bees optimization (IMBO) by adding Levy flight algorithm for queen mating flight and neighboring for worker drone improving. The IM...

Traditionally, project scheduling and material planning have been treated independently. In this research, a mixed integer programming model is presented to integrate project scheduling and materials ordering problems. The goal is to minimize the total material holding and ordering costs. In addition, an efficient metaheuristic algorithm is proposed to solve the model. The proposed algorithm is...

Attempting to address optimization problems in various scientific disciplines is a fundamental and significant difficulty requiring optimization. This study presents the waterwheel plant technique (WWPA), novel stochastic motivated by natural systems. The proposed WWPA’s basic concept based on modeling plant’s behavior while hunting expedition. To find prey, WWPA uses plants as search agents. W...

Many metaheuristic algorithms are nature-inspired, and most are population-based. Particle swarm optimization is a good example as an efficient metaheuristic algorithm. Inspired by PSO, many new algorithms have been developed in recent years. For example, firefly algorithm was inspired by the flashing behaviour of fireflies. In this paper, the author extends the standard firefly algorithm furth...