An effective bacterial foraging optimizer for global optimization. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001 (Inf. Sci., 2016)

A bare bones bacterial foraging optimization algorithm. - Liying Wang 001; Weiguo Zhao 001; Yulong Tian; Gangzhu Pan (Cogn. Syst. Res., 2018)

Multiple-Kernel MRVM With LBFO Algorithm for Fault Diagnosis of Broken Rotor Bar in Induction Motor. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001 (IEEE Access, 2019)

Supply-Demand-Based Optimization: A Novel Economics-Inspired Algorithm for Global Optimization. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001; Zhenxing Zhang (IEEE Access, 2019)

A novel atom search optimization for dispersion coefficient estimation in groundwater. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001; Zhenxing Zhang (Future Gener. Comput. Syst., 2019)

Atom search optimization and its application to solve a hydrogeologic parameter estimation problem. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001; Zhenxing Zhang (Knowl. Based Syst., 2019)

Manta ray foraging optimization: An effective bio-inspired optimizer for engineering applications. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Zhenxing Zhang; Liying Wang 001 (Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., 2020)

Artificial ecosystem-based optimization: a novel nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001; Zhenxing Zhang (Neural Comput. Appl., 2020)

An adaptive hybrid atom search optimization with particle swarm optimization and its application to optimal no-load PID design of hydro-turbine governor. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Tiancong Shi; Liying Wang 001; Qingjiao Cao; Hongfei Zhang (J. Comput. Des. Eng., 2021)

Artificial rabbits optimization: A new bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems. - Liying Wang 001; Qingjiao Cao; Zhenxing Zhang; Seyedali Mirjalili; Weiguo Zhao 001 (Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., 2022)

Electric eel foraging optimization: A new bio-inspired optimizer for engineering applications. - Weiguo Zhao 001; Liying Wang 001; Zhenxing Zhang; Honggang Fan; Jiajie Zhang; Seyedali Mirjalili; Nima Khodadadi; Qingjiao Cao (Expert Syst. Appl., 2024)

An ensemble deep learning network based on 2D convolutional neural network and 1D LSTM with self-attention for bearing fault diagnosis. - Liying Wang 001; Weiguo Zhao 001 (Appl. Soft Comput., 2025)

Tianji's horse racing optimization (THRO): a new metaheuristic inspired by ancient wisdom and its engineering optimization applications. - Liying Wang 001; Haiping Du; Zhenxing Zhang; Gang Hu 002; Seyedali Mirjalili; Nima Khodadadi; Abdelazim G. Hussien; Yingying Liao; Weiguo Zhao 001 (Artif. Intell. Rev., 2025)