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Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms have attracted much attention in the last decade, and new algorithms have emerged almost every year with a vast, ever-expanding literature. In this chapter, we briefly review two latest metaheuristics: bat algorithm and cuckoo search for global optimization. Bat algorithm was proposed by Xin-She Yang in 2010, inspired by the echolocation of microbats, while cuckoo search was developed by Xin-She Yang and Suash Deb in 2009, inspired by the brood parasitism of some cuckoo species. Both algorithms have shown superiority over many other metaheuristics over a wide range of applications.
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Yang, XS. (2013). Bat Algorithm and Cuckoo Search: A Tutorial. In: Yang, XS. (eds) Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing and Metaheuristics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 427. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29694-9_17
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