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    The Rationale Behind Seeking Inspiration from Nature

    There are currently numerous heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimisation problems which are commonly described as nature-inspired. Parallels can certainly be drawn between these algorithms and various ...

    Kent C. B. Steer, Andrew Wirth in Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Optimisation (2009)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Information Theoretic Classification of Problems for Metaheuristics

    This paper proposes a model for metaheuristic research which recognises the need to match algorithms to problems. An empirical approach to producing a map** from problems to algorithms is presented. This map...

    Kent C. B. Steer, Andrew Wirth, Saman K. Halgamuge in Simulated Evolution and Learning (2008)