Purpose of this repository is to collect and archive metaheuristic algorithms and their applications in geophysics. Format of the lists is algorithm name (author, year) {most-cited implementation in geophysics}
- Simulated annealing (Kirkpatrick, 1983) {MK Sen, PL Stoffa - Geophysics, 1991}
- Ant colony optimization (Dorigo, 1992) {S Yuan, S Wang, N Tian - Applied Geophysics, 2009}
- Particle swarm optimization (Kennedy, 1995) {R Shaw, S Srivastava - Geophysics, 2007}
- Harmony search (Geem, 2001) {Ali Haydar Kayhan, et. al - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2011}
- Artificial bee colony (Karaboga, 2005) {Xianhai Song, et. al - Computers & Geosciences, 2015}
- Bees algorithm (Pham, 2005) {X Song, et. al - Computers & Geosciences, 2015}
- Glowworm swarm optimization (Krishnanand, 2005)
- Shuffled frog leaping (Eusuff, 2006)
- Cat Swarm Optimization (Chu, 2006)
- Imperialist competitive (Atashpaz-Gargari, 2007)
- River formation dynamics (Rabanal, 2007)
- Intelligent water drops (Shah-Hosseini 2007)
- Gravitational search (Rashedi, 2009)
- Cuckoo search (Yang, 2009) {Hakim Saibi, Reza Toushmalani - Near Surface APC, 2015}
- Bat algorithm (Yang, 2010) {Rashed Poormirzaee, at. al - J. of Environmental and Eng. Geophysics, 2019}
- Spiral optimization (SPO) (Tamura, 2011)
- Flower pollination (Yang, 2012)
- Cuttlefish optimization (Eesa, 2013)
- Heterogeneous Distributed Bees (Tkach, 2013)
- Artificial swarm intelligence (Rosenberg, 2014)
- Colliding bodies optimization (Kaveh, 2014)
- Duelist Algorithm (Biyanto, 2016)
- Harris hawks optimization (DeBruyne, 2016)
- The Whale Optimization Algorithm (Mirjalili, 2016)
- Emperor Penguins Colony (Dhiman, 2018)
- 2005. J Dréo, et. al. Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization (link).
- 2008. Christian Blum, Maria Jose Blesa Aguilera, Andrea Roli, Michael Sampels. Hybrid Metaheuristics: An Emerging Approach to Optimization (link).
- 2009. El-Ghazali Talbi. Metaheuristics: from design to implementation (link).
- 2011. Sean Luke. Essentials of Metaheuristics (link).
- 2014. Xin-She Yang. Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms (link).
- 2016. Ke-Lin Du and M. N. S. Swamy. Search and Optimization by Metaheuristics: Techniques and Algorithms Inspired by Nature (link).
- 2018. Bastien Chopard, Marco Tomassini. An Introduction to Metaheuristics for Optimization (link).
- 2018. Teofilo F Gonzalez. Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition: Methologies and Traditional Applications, Volume 1 (link).
- 2018. Teofilo F Gonzalez. Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition: Methologies and Traditional Applications, Volume 2 (link).
- 2019. Michel Gendreau and Jean-Yves Potvin. Handbook of Metaheuristics. Springer International Publishing (link).