Special Issue: Parallel Metaheuristics

The hardware evolution is clearly oriented to increase the number of available processors, since the performance of single processors is not considerably improving. Nowadays, it is difficult to find a device with a single processor: from mobile phones to high-performance computers usually have several processors that can work together to accomplish the same task. For that reason, several researchers are adapting the classical metaheuristic frameworks to parallel processing.

This Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of Heuristics (JoH) arises from the necessity of providing new algorithms with the ability of leveraging multiprocessors architectures. This call is devoted to submissions on new parallel design of classical metaheuristic algorithms. The objective of this special issue is to present parallel algorithms which are not based on executing the classical algorithm in several processors, but on new designs of parallel metaheuristics. It has been 20 years since the Special Issue “New Advances in Parallel Meta-Heuristics for Complex Problems” in which authors were encouraged to provide new parallel designs for classical metaheuristics. In this Special Issue, we would like to analyze the evolution of parallelism as well as proposing new parallel metaheuristic designs, which can be oriented to either reduce the computational effort or to increase the portion of the search space, eventually reaching better solutions. This Call for Papers is open to the entire community of academics and practitioners.

Call for Papers Flyer: Parallel Metaheuristics