RT Journal Article T1 Applications of river formation dynamics A1 Rabanal Basalo, Pablo Manuel A1 Rodríguez Laguna, Ismael A1 Rubio Díez, Fernando AB River formation dynamics is a metaheuristic where solutions are constructed by iteratively modifying the values associated to the nodes of a graph. Its gradient orientation provides interesting features such as the fast reinforcement of new shortcuts, the natural avoidance of cycles, and the focused elimination of blind alleys. Since the method was firstly proposed in 2007, several research groups have applied it to a wide variety of application domains, such as telecommunications, software testing, industrial manufacturing processes, or navigation. In this paper we review the main works of the last decade where the river formation dynamics metaheuristic has been applied to solve optimization problems. PB Elsevier SN 1877-7503 YR 2017 FD 2017-08-18 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19333 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19333 LA eng NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) NO Comunidad de Madrid DS Docta Complutense RD 12 abr 2025