Everything about Algorithm engineering

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Algorithm engineeringA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Artificial hummingbird algorithm: A new bio-inspired optimizer with its engineering applicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Pelican Optimization Algorithm: A Novel Nature-Inspired Algorithm for Engineering ApplicationsCited 853 times
5. Go sideways: Empirical algorithmicsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Theoretical computer scienceA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Pelican Optimization Algorithm: A Novel Nature-Inspired Algorithm for Engineering Applications

  Pavel Trojovský, Mohammad Dehghani · 2022 · Sensors · 853 citations

• Gannet optimization algorithm : A new metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

  Jeng-Shyang Pan, Li-Gang Zhang, Ruo-Bin Wang · 2022 · Mathematics and Computers in Simulation · 294 citations

• Queuing search algorithm: A novel metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

  Jinhao Zhang, Mi Xiao, Liang Gao · 2018 · Applied Mathematical Modelling · 242 citations

• Material Generation Algorithm: A Novel Metaheuristic Algorithm for Optimization of Engineering Problems

  Siamak Talatahari, Mahdi Azizi, Amir H. Gandomi · 2021 · Processes · 116 citations

• Engineering a Lightweight Suffix Array Construction Algorithm

  Giovanni Manzini, Paolo Ferragina · 2004 · Algorithmica · 103 citations

• Algorithm engineering for public key algorithms

  T. Beth, D. Gollman · 1989 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 81 citations

• Social mimic optimization algorithm and engineering applications

  Saeed Balochian, Hossein Baloochian · 2019 · Expert Systems with Applications · 81 citations

• Multi-tracker Optimization Algorithm: A General Algorithm for Solving Engineering Optimization Problems

  Ehsan Zakeri, Seyed Alireza Moezi, Yousef Bazargan-Lari · 2016 · Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Mechanical Engineering · 49 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Artificial hummingbird algorithm: A new bio-inspired optimizer with its engineering applications

  Weiguo Zhao, Liying Wang, Seyedali Mirjalili · 2022 · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering · 988 citations

• Artificial rabbits optimization: A new bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

  Liying Wang, Qingjiao Cao, Zhenxing Zhang · 2022 · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 788 citations

• Black-winged kite algorithm: a nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving benchmark functions and engineering problems

  Jun Wang, Wen-chuan Wang, Xiao-xue Hu · 2024 · Artificial Intelligence Review · 654 citations

• Osprey optimization algorithm: A new bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

  Mohammad Dehghani, Pavel Trojovský · 2023 · Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering · 556 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
• Parallel Processing and Applied MathematicsRoman Wyrzykowski · 2003
• Introduction to AlgorithmsThomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson · 1990
• Swarm Intelligence AlgorithmsAdam Slowik · 2020
• Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and MethodShaoying Liu, Zhenhua Duan · 2013
• The Master AlgorithmPedro Domingos · 2015
• The art of error correcting codingRobert H. Morelos-Zaragoza · 2002
• Genetic algorithms + data structures = evolution programsZbigniew Michalewicz · 1992

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