“…In these services, parallel metaheuristics are efficient methods to compute large scheduling in reduced execution times (Alba et al., ; Nesmachnow et al., , , ; Xhafa and Abraham, ). - Software engineering and software development, a field in which parallel metaheuristics have just started to show their usefulness for exploring large search spaces, such as in the optimization of dynamic data types and memory managers in embedded systems (Risco‐Martin et al., , ), and in software testing (Alba and Chicano, ).
- Telecommunications, a field that has grown at a fast pace in recent years, posing difficult challenges to the research community due to the large size of the infrastructures, the need for real‐time results, etc. Parallel metaheuristics have shown a great impact on addressing these challenges by providing accurate and efficient solutions to the related optimization problems in network design (Alba and Chicano, ; Nesmachnow et al., ; Pedemonte and Cancela, ; Ribeiro and Rosseti, ), network routing (Durillo et al., ; Liu et al., ; Segura et al., ; Zhu et al., ), and network planning, especially in modern networks technologies such as cellular (Alba and Chicano, ; Talbi et al., ), mobile ad‐hoc networks (Liu et al., ), vehicular networks, sensor networks, and peer‐to‐peer (Luna et al., ; Nesmachnow et al., ).
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