This document presents a thesis seminar on optimization techniques inspired by Newtonian laws of gravity and gravitational search algorithms. It introduces the gravitational search algorithm and how it is based on Newton's law of universal gravitation. It then proposes some new hybrid algorithms that combine gravitational search with mutation operators and differential evolution. These proposed algorithms (GSA-m and GDE) are tested on benchmark functions and shown to perform better than the original GSA and other popular algorithms like genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization. The document also extends the approach to multi-objective optimization problems and proposes a new multi-objective gravitational optimization algorithm.
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