“…A significant number of metaheuristics methods exist today, explained by the no free lunch theorem [57], stating that an universal solution to all optimization problems is not existing. Consequently, the researchers have implemented a large number of algorithms, and employed them on a wide range of real-world problems from different domains, such as medical diagnostics [15,21,25,37,47], wireless sensor networks [5,10,13,53,63,72], stock price forecasting [17], intrusion detection and other security applications [2,35,45,51,61,62,66,71] and plant classification problem [18]. Metaheuristics algorithms have been also employed to tune the cloud, edge and fog computing [3,6,16,24,52,65], feature selection [9,20,23,36,41,54,67], dropout regularization [12], a wide spectrum of COVID-19 challenges [26,64,[68][69][70], artificial neural networks optimization [4,7,8,…”