Metaheuristic algorithms: A comprehensive review

Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Big Data on the Cloud with Engineering Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 185-231

  Abdel Basset, Mohamed ^a   Abdel Fatah, Laila ^a   Sangaiah, Arun Kumar ^b  

^a Zagazig University   (Egypt)

^b VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Metaheuristic; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85081923862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-813314-9.00010-4     Document Type: Chapter

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