Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), also known as Colonial Competitive Algorithm (CCA), is a sociopolitical metaheuristics, inspired by historical colonization process and competition among imperialists, to capture more colonies. Set of countries (solutions) in ICA, is partitioned to form several Empires, which contains a single Imperialist and several other weaker countries, called Colonies. This algorithm is proposed by Esmaeil Atashpaz Gargari ...

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