Abstract
In this paper, a new hybrid MpGA-CS is elaborated between multi-population genetic algorithm (MpGA) and cuckoo search (CS) metaheuristic. Developed MpGA-CS has been adapted and tested consequently for modelling of bacteria and yeast fermentation processes (FP), due to their great impact on different industrial areas. In parallel, classic MpGA, classic CS, and a new hybrid MpGA-CS have been separately applied for parameter identification of E. coli and S. cerevisiae FP models. For completeness, the newly elaborated MpGA-CS has been compared with two additional nature-inspired algorithms; namely, artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) and water cycle algorithm (WCA). The comparison has been carried out based on numerical and statistical tests, such as ANOVA, Friedman, and Wilcoxon tests. The obtained results show that the hybrid metaheuristic MpGA-CS, presented herein for the first time, has been distinguished as the most reliable among the investigated algorithms to further save computational resources.