As a total noob, I got a lot out of the book Swarm Intelligence [2001] by Eberhart, Shi, and Kennedy. Terrific survey of optimization overall and then dives int

As a total noob, I got a lot out of the book Swarm Intelligence [2001] by Eberhart, Shi, and Kennedy. Terrific survey of optimization overall and then dives into bee colony inspired algorithms (particle swarm optimization). Lots of books with similar name, so here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolutionary-Computation/dp/1558605959 https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolutio... I'm happy to see their website is still up: http://www.swarmintelligence.org http://www.swarmintelligence.org I ended up using ACO for a manufacturing optimization problem. Once you reframe your problem into one of the classics, traveling salesperson in my case, you can feed it to a bunch of different strategies. I suppose I could have used genetic programming or taboo search, but didn't have the gumption to play around more. I haven't done any optimization or OR work since, so haven't kept up. All this machine learning stuff as made me wistful for the good old days. I'm on the lookout for a hobby problem or project which will give me an excuse to circle back to optimization stuff.