THE VIRUS OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM (VOA) Inspired by the behavior of virus, our algorithm (VOA) is a population-based approach and is designed to solve continuous domain problems.

Jun 1, 2016 · The virus population infiltrates the host environment and attempts to infect it. In the optimization procedure, at first the viruses reside in the constituted regions or clusters of the …

The document presents the Virus Optimization Algorithm (VOA), a novel metaheuristic designed to solve continuous optimization problems by mimicking the behavior of viruses. It operates by generating …

A novel metaheuristic for continuous optimization problems, named the virus optimization algorithm (VOA), is introduced and investigated. VOA is an iteratively population-based method that ...

This paper considers the synthesis of the four-bar mechanism. It is treated here as an optimization problem, in which an objective function is defined. To solve this problem, a metaheuristic called the …

A novel metaheuristic for continuous optimization problems, named the virus optimization algorithm (VOA), is introduced and investigated. VOA is an iteratively population-based method that imitates …

May 1, 2025 · This paper presents a novel meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by the visual capabilities of the mantis shrimp (Gonodactylus smithii), which can detect linearly and circularly polarized light …

Feb 21, 2021 · In this study, we are investigating the performance of Virus Optimization Algorithm (VOA), a metaheuristics algorithm based on the behavior of viruses attacking a living cell, in solving …

Nov 1, 2023 · In this paper, a novel metaheuristics algorithm named Virus Control Optimizer (VCO) is proposed to solve engineering optimization problems. The algorithm is inspired by the prevention …

In this paper, we employ a virus optimization (VO) algorithm, which is one of the metaheuristic optimization techniques, and a known construction method to compute many new binary $ [72,36,12] …