[_raoulcousins]

There are some people fighting the good fight for more disciplined metaheuristics research. Metaheurstics - the Metaphor Exposed is a nice read (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hutter/EARG.shtml/stack/2013_Sorensen...). The author is spot on that a lot of the nature-inspired algorithms don't even make sense as metaphors and they're just obfuscating the descriptions of algorithms unnecessarily.

[dimatura]

Looks like an interesting paper - I agree with your single-sentence summary, at least. I'll check it out.

[dimatura]

Update: read the paper. It's spot on, great read.