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Design Philosophy
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As was shown in one `ALJ-2023 <https://tinyurl.com/2sjn8kp9>`_ paper, `"although metaphors can be powerful
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inspiration tools, the emergence of hundreds of barely discernible algorithmic variants under different
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labels and nomenclatures has been counterproductive to the scientific progress of the field, as it neither
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improves our ability to understand and simulate biological systems nor contributes generalizable knowledge
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or design principles for global optimization approaches." <https://tinyurl.com/2sjn8kp9>`_
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Given a large number of black-box optimizers (BBO) versions/variants which still keep increasing almost every week,
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we need some (possibly) widely acceptable criteria to select from them, as presented below in details. For any
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**new/missed** BBO in the literature, we have provided an open-access (unified API) interface to help freely add

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