... with BRO. The results show that it got better solutions rather than BRO. Design/methodology/approach Many metaheuristics algorithm has been developed in recent years, but it should be noted that each one of metaheuristics can be used to solve particular problems and it cannot be used to solve all...

.../methodology/approach In the paper, discrete topology concepts are applied to propose a metaheuristic algorithm that is capable to solve binary programming problems. Particularly, some of the homotopy for paths principles are used to explore the solution space associated with four well-known NP-hard problems...

... networks. Contrary to most of related publications, this paper is focussed on aspects which are relevant for real communication networks. Moreover, due to the stochastic nature of metaheuristics, the results are validated through a formal statistical analysis. This analysis is divided in two stages: first...