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The Bat Algorithm, Variants and Some Practical Engineering Applications: A Review

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The bat algorithm (BA), a metaheuristic algorithm developed by Xin-She Yang in 2010, has since been modified, and applied to numerous practical optimization problems in engineering. This chapter is a survey of the BA, its variants, some sample real-world optimization applications, and directions for future research.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, 632014, India

    T. Jayabarathi & T. Raghunathan

  2. School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

    A. H. Gandomi

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Jayabarathi, T., Raghunathan, T., Gandomi, A.H. (2018). The Bat Algorithm, Variants and Some Practical Engineering Applications: A Review. In: Yang, XS. (eds) Nature-Inspired Algorithms and Applied Optimization. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 744. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67669-2_14

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