“…Inrecentyears,theBAhasbeenwidelyandsuccessfullyappliedonavarietyofengineering problems,suchaspatternrecognition (Nebti&Boukerram,2013),datamining (Poonam&Dhaiya 2015;Nemmich, Debbat, & Slimane, 2019), supply chain optimisation (Mayteekrieangkrai & Wongthatsanekorn,2015),imageanalysis (Azarbadetal.,2011),numericalfunctionsoptimisation (Pham & Castellani, 2009;Pham et al, 2006a;Yuce et al, 2013;Nemmich & Debbat, 2017;Nemmich,Debbat&Slimane,2018),solvingtimetablingproblems(NguyenK.,NguyenP.,&Tran, 2012),productionscheduling(Packianatheretal.,2014,controlsystemtuning (Pham,Darwish, & Eldukhri, 2009), robotic swarm coordination (Jevtić, Gutiérrez, Andina, & Jamshidi, 2012), proteinconformationsearch(Janaetal.,2015,wooddefectclassification (Packianather&Kapoor, 2015),testformconstruction (Songmuang&Ueno,2011),mechanicaldesign(Moradietal.,2015, chemicalprocess (Castellani,Q.T.Pham,&D.T.Pham,2012),PrintedCircuitBoard(PCB)assembly optimisation (Pham,Otri,&Darwish,2007b),PlacementsofFACTSdevices (Idris,Kharuddi,& Mustafa2009a),andseveralotherapplications (Hussein,Sahran&SheikhAbdullah,2017). TheBAhasgraspedaremarkableattentionofresearcherssinceithasbeenprovedtobeefficient androbustoptimizationtool.Itseemsthattheymaybeusefulforsolvingresourceconstrainedproject schedulingproblem(RCPSP).…”