Metaphor-based metaheuristics, a call for action: the elephant in the room

Taking inspiration from natural behaviors to devise new optimization algorithms has played an important role in the history of the field of metaheuristics (Sörensen et al. 2017). Unfortunately, in the last two decades we have been witnessing a new trend by which dozens of metaphor-based metaheuristi...

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Published inSwarm intelligence Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Aranha, Claus, Camacho Villalón, Christian L., Campelo, Felipe, Dorigo, Marco, Ruiz, Rubén, Sevaux, Marc, Sörensen, Kenneth, Stützle, Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.03.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Springer
Subjects
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Behavior
Communications Engineering
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Mathematical and Computational Engineering
Metaphor
Methods
Networks
Operations Research
Optimization
Terminology
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ISSN1935-3812
1935-3820
1935-3820
DOI10.1007/s11721-021-00202-9

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Summary:Taking inspiration from natural behaviors to devise new optimization algorithms has played an important role in the history of the field of metaheuristics (Sörensen et al. 2017). Unfortunately, in the last two decades we have been witnessing a new trend by which dozens of metaphor-based metaheuristics based on the most diverse possible set of natural, artificial, social, and sometimes even supernatural phenomena and behaviors are proposed, without a clear motivation beyond the desire of their authors to publish their papers.
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ISSN:1935-3812
1935-3820
1935-3820
DOI:10.1007/s11721-021-00202-9