Maybe not exactly what you want, but this book has some useful information: http://cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html http://cleveralgorithms.com/n

Maybe not exactly what you want, but this book has some useful information: http://cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html http://cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html . Check out the "Heuristics" subtitle of the algorithms. For example, "Differential evolution was designed for nonlinear, non-differentiable continuous function optimization." "NSGA was designed for and is suited to continuous function multiple objective optimization problem instances."