Metaheuristics - the metaphor exposed
Metaheuristics - the metaphor exposed
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DOI：
10.1111/itor.12001
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发表时间：
2015
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K. Sörensen
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作者：
K. Sörensen
近年来，组合优化领域已经见证了一个真正的海啸的“新颖”的元启发式方法，其中大多数是基于一些自然或人为的过程的隐喻。几乎任何种类的昆虫的行为，水流，音乐家一起演奏-似乎没有什么想法是太牵强，作为灵感，推出另一个元启发式。在本文中，我们将认为，这条线的研究是威胁到导致元分析领域远离科学严谨。我们将研究的历史背景，引起了越来越多的使用隐喻的灵感和理由的发展新的方法，讨论的原因，元分析领域的脆弱性，这条线的研究，并指出其谬误。与此同时，也在进行真正高质量的创新研究。最后，我们讨论了这项研究的一些属性，并指出了一些最有前途的研究途径，为metabolistics领域的文件。
In recent years, the field of combinatorial optimization has witnessed a true tsunami of “novel” metaheuristic methods, most of them based on a metaphor of some natural or man-made process. The behavior of virtually any species of insects, the flow of water, musicians playing together – it seems that no idea is too far-fetched to serve as inspiration to launch yet another metaheuristic. In this paper, we will argue that this line of research is threatening to lead the area of metaheuristics away from scientific rigor. We will examine the historical context that gave rise to the increasing use of metaphors as inspiration and justification for the development of new methods, discuss the reasons for the vulnerability of the metaheuristics field to this line of research, and point out its fallacies. At the same time, truly innovative research of high quality is being performed as well. We conclude the paper by discussing some of the properties of this research and by pointing out some of the most promising research avenues for the field of metaheuristics.