Felipe Campelo, Claus Aranha
The field of metaheuristics has a long history of finding inspiration in natural systems, starting from evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, and ant colony optimization in the second half of the 20th century. In the last decades, however, the field has experienced an explosion of metaphor-centered methods claiming to be inspired by increasingly absurd natural (and even supernatural) phenomena-several different types of birds, mammals, fish and invertebrates, soccer and volleyball, reincarnation, zombies, and gods...
July 7, 2023: Artificial Life