Water-Based Metaheuristics: How Water Dynamics Can Help Us to Solve NP-Hard Problems

Many water-based optimization metaheuristics have been introduced during the last decade, both for combinatorial and for continuous optimization. Despite the strong similarities of these methods in terms of their underlying natural metaphors (most of them emulate, in some way or another, how drops c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fernando Rubio, Ismael Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Complexity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4034258