Sonar inspired optimization (SIO) in engineering applications

Recently, a new Nature Inspired Intelligent scheme has been proposed and presented, named Sonar Inspired Optimization (SIO). This algorithm is inspired by the SONAR mechanism, which is used by Warships to detect targets and avoid mines. In this paper, improvements have been done to the SIO approach in an attempt to increase the performance of the algorithm. Also, results from experiments in known constrained Engineering applications are presented and discussed. SIO tackles with these problems, managing to overcome the performance of other Nature Inspired metaheuristics, heuristics and mathematical approaches in most of the cases.