Main description:

Comprehensive Metaheuristics: Algorithms and Applications presents the foundational underpinnings of metaheuristics and a broad scope of algorithms and real-world applications across a variety of research fields. The book starts with fundamentals, mathematical prerequisites, and conceptual approaches to provide readers with a solid foundation. After presenting multi-objective optimization, constrained optimization, and problem formation for metaheuristics, world-renowned authors give readers in-depth understanding of the full spectrum of algorithms and techniques. Scientists, researchers, academicians, and practitioners who are interested in optimizing a process or procedure to achieve a goal will benefit from the case studies of real-world applications from different domains.

The book takes a much-needed holistic approach, putting the most widely used metaheuristic algorithms together with an in-depth treatise on multi-disciplinary applications of metaheuristics. Each algorithm is thoroughly analyzed to observe its behavior, providing a detailed tutorial on how to solve problems using metaheuristics. New case studies and research problem statements are also discussed, which will help researchers in their application of the concepts.

Contents:

1. Chaos theory in metaheuristcs

2. A New Metaheuristic Approach for Solving Multi-Objective Optimization Problems

3. A Brief Overview of Physics-inspired Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques

4. Application of evolutionary computation techniques for developing optimal response actions against water distribution networks contamination

5. Metaheuristic Technique for Solving Fuzzy Nonlinear Equations

6. Meta-heuristics in Network Intrusion Detection

7. Meta-heuristics in text clustring

8. Application of Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Sewer Collection Systems

9. Meta-heuristics for optimization of structures

10. Meta-heuristics for solving wind turbine placement problem

11. Meta-heuristics in industrial development and its future perspective

12. Levy Flight and Chaos Theory Based Gravitational Search Algorithm for Greyscale Image Thresholding

13. Meta-heuristics for Optimal Feature Selection in High-Dimensional Datasets

14. The Optimal Deployment of Sensors for Leakage Detection in Water Distribution Systems using meta-heuristics

15. Meta-Heuristics Based Automatic Generation Controller In Interconnected Power Systems With Renewable Energy Sources

16. Swarm Intelligence based Route optimization in Mobile Ad-hoc Network

17. The promise of metaheuristic algorithms for efficient operation of a highly complex power system: a comparative assessment

18. Genome Sequencing: Applications of Meta-Heuristics in Bioinformatics

19. Meta-heuristics for training Neural Networks

20. Meta-heuristics for clustring problems

21. Bio Inspired Algorithms in the field of Antenna Array Optimization: Review

22. Foundations of Combinatorial Optimization, Heuristics, and Meta-heuristics