A Survey of League Championship Algorithm: Prospects and Challenges

The League Championship Algorithm (LCA) is sport-inspired optimization algorithm that was introduced by Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan in the year 2009. It has since drawn enormous interest among the researchers because of its ­potential­efficiency­ in­solving­many­optimization­problems­and­real-world­applications.­The­LCA­has­also­shown­great­ potentials­in­solving­non-deterministic­polynomial­time­(NP-complete)­problems.­This­survey­presents­a­brief­synopsis­of­ the­LCA­­literatures­in­peer-reviewed­journals,­conferences­and­book­chapters.­These­research­articles­are­then­­categorized­ ­according­ to­ indexing­ in­ the­major­academic­databases­ (Web­of­Science,­Scopus,­ IEEE­Xplore­and­ the­Google­Scholar).­ The analysis was also done to explore the prospects and the challenges of the algorithm and its acceptability among researchers. This systematic categorization can be used as a basis for future studies. A Survey of League Championship Algorithm: Prospects and Challenges Shafi'i Muhammad Abdulhamid1*, Muhammad Shafie Abd Latiff1, Syed Hamid Hussain Madni1 and Osho Oluwafemi2 1Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria; [email protected]