WCA swMATH ID: 20636 Software Authors: Ali Sadollah, Hadi Eskandar, Ho Min Lee, Do Guen Yoo, Joong Hoon Kim Description: Water cycle algorithm: A detailed standard code. Inspired by the observation of the water cycle process and movements of rivers and streams toward the sea, a population-based metaheuristic algorithm, the water cycle algorithm (WCA) has recently been proposed. Lately, an increasing number of WCA applications have appeared and the WCA has been utilized in different optimization fields. This paper provides detailed open source code for the WCA, of which the performance and efficiency has been demonstrated for solving optimization problems. The WCA has an interesting and simple concept and this paper aims to use its source code to provide a step-by-step explanation of the process it follows. Homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711016300024 Source Code: https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX/SOFTX-D-15-00035 Dependencies: Matlab Keywords: SoftwareX; software journal; Metaheuristic algorithms; Water cycle algorithm; WCA; Global optimization Related Software: GWO; GSA; WOA; ABC; ALO; SSA; AOA; SPEA2; MOEA/D; JADE; CEC 13; Matlab; MOMPA; Chameleon Swarm; NBI; CEC 05; QAPLIB; Honey badger algorithm; AHA; RM-MEDA Cited in: 36 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software Year all top 5 Cited by 105 Authors 3 Luo, Qifang 3 Zhou, Yongquan 2 Farnad, Behnam 2 Jafarian, Ahmad 2 Khalilpourazari, Soheyl 2 Kotecha, Prakash 1 Abouei Ardakan, Mostafa 1 Akgül, Ali 1 Alfi, Alireza 1 Ali, Javaid 1 Astorga, Gino 1 Azizi, Mahdi 1 Babayan, Narek 1 Băleanu, Dumitru I. 1 Baykasoglu, Adil 1 Ben Abdelaziz, Fouad 1 Ben, Niu 1 Bian, Chentong 1 Cao, Zijian 1 Carbas, Serdar 1 Chalabi, Nour El-Houda 1 Chao, Tao 1 Chaudhry, Nazir Ahmad 1 Chauhan, Sandeep Singh 1 Chen, Chengcheng 1 Chen, Huiling 1 Chou, Jui-Sheng 1 Chu, Shu-Chuan 1 Crawford, Broderick 1 Deng, Wu 1 Doulabi, Hossein Hashemi 1 Du, Yanlian 1 Farman, Muhammad 1 Feng, Jiqiang 1 Gao, Liang 1 Huang, Xiongwen 1 Iqbal, Shaukat 1 Jiang, Ruiye 1 Khodadadi, Nima 1 Kommadath, Remya 1 Kustudic, Mijat 1 Łapa, Krystian 1 Lefkir, Mira 1 Li, Xia 1 Li, Yu 1 Liu, Jingsen 1 Luo, Jianping 1 Ma, Yixiang 1 Machado, José António Tenreiro 1 Mahdavi-Nasab, Narges 1 Mirjalili, Seyed Mohammad 1 Mirjalili, SeyedAli 1 Mirzazadeh, Abolfazl 1 Mohammadi, Mohammad Hassan 1 Narayanan, Ajit 1 Ng, Kien-Ming 1 Ozsoydan, Fehmi Burcin 1 Pahnehkolaei, Seyed Mehdi Abedi 1 Pan, Jengshyang 1 Pan, Quanke 1 Paredes, Fernando 1 Pasandideh, Seyed Hamid Reza 1 Peng, Xiangni 1 Peng, Xiaoning 1 Qu, Chiwen 1 Snášel, Václav 1 Song, Jiang-Di 1 Soto, Ricardo Lorenzo 1 Tabassum, Muhammad Farhan 1 Tahani, Mojtaba 1 Tang, Jialing 1 Toktas, Abdurrahim 1 Tran, Trung Hieu 1 Truong, Dinh-Nhat 1 Ustun, Deniz 1 Wang, Jiesheng 1 Wang, Lei 1 Wang, Liying 1 Wang, Mingjing 1 Wang, Ruo-Bin 1 Wang, Songyan 1 Wang, Xianchang 1 Wang, Zhenkun 1 Weber, Gerhard-Wilhelm 1 Wedyan, Ahmad 1 Whalley, Jacqueline 1 Xiao, Mi 1 Xing, Yuhao 1 Xu, Liwei 1 Yan, Zheping 1 Yang, Xiao 1 Yang, Yun 1 Yin, Guodong 1 Yin, Shihong 1 Yu, Helong 1 Zeng, Jia 1 Zhang, Jingzhong 1 Zhang, Jinhao 1 Zhang, Ligang 1 Zhang, Ning ...and 5 more Authors all top 5 Cited in 18 Serials 5 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 5 Applied Mathematical Modelling 3 Information Sciences 3 Algorithms 2 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2 Annals of Operations Research 1 Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 1 Applied Mathematics and Computation 1 Computing 1 Optimization 1 Communications in Statistics. Theory and Methods 1 Complexity 1 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 1 International Journal of Computational Methods 1 Advances in Difference Equations 1 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 1 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 1 Journal of Optimization all top 5 Cited in 7 Fields 31 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 10 Computer science (68-XX) 3 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 2 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Systems theory; control (93-XX) Citations by Year