This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to nature-inspired metaheuristic methods for search and optimization, including the latest trends in evoluti

This book exemplifies how algorithms are developed by mimicking nature. Classical techniques for solving day-to-day problems is time-consuming and cannot addres

The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil e

This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature. The first group of chapters descri

Modern metaheuristic algorithms such as bee algorithms and harmony search start to demonstrate their power in dealing with tough optimization problems and even