Search Metaheuristics
Stephen N. Winters-Hilt · 2021
Many search methods have been encountered in the context of “tuning” on the previous acquisition, classification, and clustering methods. Methods and metaheuristics to perform searches are described in a more general context. The use of computers makes algorithmic aspects of the solution, such as “random restart”, accessible in a way that was impossible before having modern computational tools. One of the weaknesses of the brute force random restart approach mentioned so far is that the tweak involved is with a bounded perturbative change, which may already exclude the possibility of reaching the solution sought. A fixed-size population of configurations can have a birth/death cycle or be static. Population is based on “ant trails”, made by selecting components one-by-one based on their pheromones.