This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature. The first group of chapters descri

Modern metaheuristic algorithms such as bee algorithms and harmony search start to demonstrate their power in dealing with tough optimization problems and even

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to nature-inspired metaheuristic methods for search and optimization, including the latest trends in evoluti

This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature. The first group of chapters descri

This book reviews the state-of-the-art developments in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications in various disciplines, ranging from feature selection