A Comprehensive Review on Scatter Search: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

Table 1

Selection criteria used for shortlisting research articles.

S. No.	Parameter	Include criteria	Exclude criteria
1	Analysis	Research articles involve the various control parameters of SS	Research articles involve the different control parameters of other metaheuristics
2	Comparison	Research articles focus on the variants and control operators of SS	Research articles focus on the variants of other metaheuristics
3	Application	Research articles on software engineering, civil, mechanical, manufacturing, bioinformatics, and networking	Research articles on social-economics, environment, and society
4	Study	Research involves mathematical foundation and experimental results	Research involves patent, articles in different language other than English