“…Over the last few decades, inspired by different natural phenomena, lots of nature-inspired algorithms have been developed. These algorithms have received considerable attention because of their derivative-free search mechanisms and excellent optimization capabilities (Benaissa et al, 2021;Khatir et al, 2021a), and many of them are extensively used nowadays including the particle swarm optimization (PSO) (Wei et al, 2020), ant colony optimization (ACO) (Guan et al, 2021), genetic algorithm (GA) (Chen et al, 2021), artificial bee colony (ABC) (Zorarpacı and Ayşe Özel, 2021), grey wolf optimizer (GWO) (Gupta and Deep, 2019), differential evolution (DE) (Houssein et al, 2022), atom search optimization (ASO) (Khatir et al, 2021b), cuckoo search (CS) (Li et al, 2021;Salgotra et al, 2021;Swain et al, 2022), and many others. CS, developed initially by Yang and Deb (2009), is becoming increasingly popular because of its powerful capability to deal with multifarious types of optimization problems (Abdel-Basset et al, 2017;Binh et al, 2018;Mohamad et al, 2014;Yang and Deb, 2014).…”