Moth Search: Variants, Hybrids, and Applications

Moth search (MS) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm based on the most representative characteristics of moths, Lévy flights and phototaxis. Phototaxis signifies movement which organism towards or away from source light, features for moths. The best moth individual seen as light in search. moths that have smaller distance one will fly around by flights. For reasons phototaxis, far fittest one, with big step. These two features, correspond to processes exploitation exploration optimization. superiority has been demonstrated many benchmark problems various application areas. A comprehensive survey was conducted this paper, included three sections: statistical research studies about search, different variants engineering optimization/applications. future insights development direction area are also discussed.