A SURVEY OF METAHEURISTIC ALGORITHMS
MOHAMED A. METWALLY *
Department of Operations Research, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, El-Zera Square, Zagazig, Sharqiyah, Egypt
LAILA A. SHAWKY
Department of Operations Research, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, El-Zera Square, Zagazig, Sharqiyah, Egypt
ABD EL-NASSER H. ZAIED
Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, El-Zera Square, Zagazig, Sharqiyah, Egypt
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Metaheuristics are powerful algorithmic approaches which have been successfully applied to a wide range of optimization problems. The main goal of this paper is introducing the key features of Metaheuristics, discussing some of its important and emerging algorithms.
Keywords: Metaheuristic, taxonomy, optimization, multi-objective metaheuristic, hybridization