• It is promising approach to solve hard and realistic optimization problems.
• Interesting computational model inspired by nature.

Our short and long term objectives in meta-heuristics research:

• How different meta-heuristics perform the search? Can we compare different meta-heuristics based on exploration and exploitation measures?
• Comparison of tuning approaches with adaptive and self-adaptive approaches.
• Ranking of meta-heuristics.
• Multi-objective optimization.
• Hyper-heuristics.
• Application of meta-heuristics (e.g., Grammatical Inference, Textile Simulation Model).