Abstract
Nature has provided inspiration for most of the man-made technologies. Scientists believe that dolphins are the second to humans in smartness and intelligence. Echolocation is the biological sonar used by dolphins and several kinds of other animals for navigation and hunting in various environments. This ability of dolphins is mimicked in this chapter to develop a new optimization method. There are different metaheuristic optimization methods, but in most of these algorithms, parameter tuning takes a considerable time of the user, persuading the scientists to develop ideas to improve these methods. Studies have shown that metaheuristic algorithms have certain governing rules and knowing these rules helps to get better results. Dolphin echolocation (DE) takes advantages of these rules and outperforms many existing optimization methods, while it has few parameters to be set. The new approach leads to excellent results with low computational efforts [1].
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Kaveh, A. (2017). Dolphin Echolocation Optimization. In: Advances in Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Structures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46173-1_6
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