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This chapter is an introduction to nature-inspired algorithms. It first discusses the reason why such algorithms have been very popular in the last decade. Then, different classifications of such methods are given. The chapter also includes the algorithms and problems investigated in this book.
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Dorigo, M., & Birattari, M. (2011). Ant colony optimization. In Encyclopedia of machine learning (pp. 36–39). Boston, MA: Springer.
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Mirjalili, S., Song Dong, J. (2020). Introduction to Nature-Inspired Algorithms. In: Mirjalili, S., Song Dong, J., Lewis, A. (eds) Nature-Inspired Optimizers. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12127-3_1
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