Purpose of this repository is to collect and archive metaheuristic algorithms and their applications in geophysics. Format of the lists is algorithm name (author, year) {most-cited implementation in geophysics}
- Simulated annealing (Kirkpatrick, 1983) {MK Sen, PL Stoffa - Geophysics, 1991}
 - Ant colony optimization (Dorigo, 1992) {S Yuan, S Wang, N Tian - Applied Geophysics, 2009}
 - Particle swarm optimization (Kennedy, 1995) {R Shaw, S Srivastava - Geophysics, 2007}
 - Harmony search (Geem, 2001) {Ali Haydar Kayhan, et. al - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2011}
 - Artificial bee colony (Karaboga, 2005) {Xianhai Song, et. al - Computers & Geosciences, 2015}
 - Bees algorithm (Pham, 2005) {X Song, et. al - Computers & Geosciences, 2015}
 - Glowworm swarm optimization (Krishnanand, 2005)
 - Shuffled frog leaping (Eusuff, 2006)
 - Cat Swarm Optimization (Chu, 2006)
 - Imperialist competitive (Atashpaz-Gargari, 2007)
 - River formation dynamics (Rabanal, 2007)
 - Intelligent water drops (Shah-Hosseini 2007)
 - Gravitational search (Rashedi, 2009)
 - Cuckoo search (Yang, 2009) {Hakim Saibi, Reza Toushmalani - Near Surface APC, 2015}
 - Bat algorithm (Yang, 2010) {Rashed Poormirzaee, at. al - J. of Environmental and Eng. Geophysics, 2019}
 - Spiral optimization (SPO) (Tamura, 2011)
 - Flower pollination (Yang, 2012)
 - Cuttlefish optimization (Eesa, 2013)
 - Heterogeneous Distributed Bees (Tkach, 2013)
 - Artificial swarm intelligence (Rosenberg, 2014)
 - Colliding bodies optimization (Kaveh, 2014)
 - Duelist Algorithm (Biyanto, 2016)
 - Harris hawks optimization (DeBruyne, 2016)
 - The Whale Optimization Algorithm (Mirjalili, 2016)
 - Emperor Penguins Colony (Dhiman, 2018)
 
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 - 2008. Christian Blum, Maria Jose Blesa Aguilera, Andrea Roli, Michael Sampels. Hybrid Metaheuristics: An Emerging Approach to Optimization (link).
 - 2009. El-Ghazali Talbi. Metaheuristics: from design to implementation (link).
 - 2011. Sean Luke. Essentials of Metaheuristics (link).
 - 2014. Xin-She Yang. Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms (link).
 - 2016. Ke-Lin Du and M. N. S. Swamy. Search and Optimization by Metaheuristics: Techniques and Algorithms Inspired by Nature (link).
 - 2018. Bastien Chopard, Marco Tomassini. An Introduction to Metaheuristics for Optimization (link).
 - 2018. Teofilo F Gonzalez. Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition: Methologies and Traditional Applications, Volume 1 (link).
 - 2018. Teofilo F Gonzalez. Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition: Methologies and Traditional Applications, Volume 2 (link).
 - 2019. Michel Gendreau and Jean-Yves Potvin. Handbook of Metaheuristics. Springer International Publishing (link).