Title
Editorial: Memetic Computing: Accelerating optimization heuristics with problem-dependent local search methods
Abstract
Memetic Algorithms and, in general, approaches underneath the wider Memetic Computing paradigm, have been at the core of a frantic research activity since the very inception of this research area in the late eighties. The community working in this area has so far showcased the benefits of hybridizing population-based algorithms with trajectory-based methods or any other specialized procedures that encompass problem-specific knowledge in a variety of real-world scenarios. From the perspective of the algorithms themselves, this hybridization can be realized in many different ways: it is this upsurge of manifold algorithmic approaches what has maintained a vigorous and intense activity around Memetic Computing over the years, progressively adapting the paradigm to newly emerging problem formulations and characteristics. This editorial introduces the readership of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation to the contributions finally included in the Special Issue on Memetic Computing: Accelerating Optimization Heuristics with Problem-Dependent Local Search Methods. The high quality of the works presented in this editorial unquestionably proves the excellent health of this vibrant research area, as well as its continued success at tackling challenging real-world optimization problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.swevo.2022.101047
Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Memetic Computing,Optimization,Evolutionary computation,Local search,Specialized search,Metaheuristics
Journal
70
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2210-6502
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eneko Osaba110.35
Javier Del Ser210.35
Carlos Cotta341644.36
Pablo Moscato433437.27