Metaheuristic optimization has emerged as a powerful paradigm for addressing the complex, nonlinear and multi-objective problems that typify modern geotechnical design. By drawing on strategies ...

General approach for combining modular metaheuristic software frameworks and automatic configuration tools. To discourage the inefficient manual invention and configuration of new metaheuristic ...

Global optimization problems where evaluation of the objective function is an expensive operation arise frequently in engineering, machine learning, decision making, statistics, optimal control, etc.