Evolution Strategy (ES) is the first and oldest evolutionary algorithm, and it is based on the adaptation and evolution. Specially, the main concept used to describe how Evolution Strategy works, is the Evolution of Evolution. In fact, evolution strategy is a family of related algorithms, and because of this, the plural name Evolution Strategies is also widely used, in the ...

Originally, the Ant Algorithms are used to solve discrete and combinatorial optimization problems. Various extensions of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) are proposed to deal with optimization problems, defined in continuous domains. One of the most useful algorithms of this type, is ACOR, the Ant Colony Optimization for Continuous Domains, proposed by Socha and Dorigo, in 2008 (here). ACOR is an ...