Bio-inspired optimization techniques

✍ Scribed by Rai, Deepak; Tyagi, Kirti

• Book ID: 121306685
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Year: 2013
• Weight: 783 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0163-5948
• DOI: 10.1145/2492248.2492271

✦ Synopsis

Despite insistent and breathtaking advances in computing, we continue to be humbled by the variety and adaptability of the natural world around us. Bio-inspired optimization is a term that covers a wide variety of computational approaches that are based on the principles of biological systems. This motivates the application of biology to optimization problems. Biologically inspired computing and optimization is a major subset of natural computation. This paper presents a critical survey of bio-inspired optimization techniques. There are many legacy optimization techniques available. This survey explains almost all important bio-inspired optimization techniques based on their development, intention, performance and application. It provides insight into determining the direction of future optimization techniques research.