...Shi Yin; Ming Zhu Purpose This paper aims to quantify the dependence relationship of bat algorithm’s (BA) behaviour on the factors that could possibly affect the outputs, and rank the importance of the various uncertain factors thus suggesting research priorities. Design/methodology/approach...

...Wensheng Xiao; Qi Liu; Linchuan Zhang; Kang Li; Lei Wu Purpose Bat algorithm (BA) is a global optimization method, but has a worse performance on engineering optimization problems. The purpose of this study is to propose a novel chaotic bat algorithm based on catfish effect (CE-CBA), which can...

.... It is a generalization of the famous vehicle routing problem (VRP), involving a group of geographically scattered customers served by the vehicle fleet including trucks and trailers. Design/methodology/approach The meta-heuristic solution approach based on bat algorithm (BA) in which a local search procedure...

...Xin‐She Yang; Amir Hossein Gandomi Purpose Nature‐inspired algorithms are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new nature‐inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm, called bat algorithm (BA), for solving engineering optimization tasks...