A comparative study on using metaheuristics for the seismic-ray-tracing problem

Geochemical Modeling of the Mantle Partial Melting using Heuristic Exploration: An Optimization Model Applied to Earth Sciences

“…Now, even though there are a lot of heuristic techniques and their use is very common in some areas of science, it is important to note that the application of heuristics in earth sciences is still limited. Only a few case studies have been reported in different sub-areas, such as Pattern Search (PS) applied to aero-geophysical data analysis [37]; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithms (GAs), Harmony Search (HS), Generalized Simulated Annealing (GSA), and PS applied to hydrology/hydrogeology [38][39][40]; GA applied to meteorology [41]; Spiral Optimization (SO), Gravitational Search (GSA), Bath Algorithm (BA), GA, PSO, and Artificial Neuronal Networks (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms applied to seismic/seismology [42][43][44][45]. To our knowledge, there is only one work reported about the use of heuristics in geochemistry [46], in which Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) was used to properly identify geochemical anomalies.…”