Metaheuristic computing is a constantly growing research field that works strongly in conjunction with related fields such as optimization, specifically encompassing ant colony optimization and particle swarm optimization, evolutionary computing, and algorithms, including culture algorithms, foraging algorithms, genetic algorithms, greedy algorithms, immune algorithms, and memetic algorithms.

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