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article improved slime mould algorithm smacsa proposed solving global optimization capacitated vehicle routing problem cvrp improvement based mixedstrategy optimization cauchy mutation simulated annealing alleviate lack global optimization capability sma introducing cauchy mutation strategy optimal solution perturbed increase probability escaping local extreme value addition annealing strategy introduced metropolis sampling criterion used acceptance criterion expand global search space enhance exploration phase achieve optimal solutions performance proposed smacsa algorithm evaluated using cec 2013 benchmark functions capacitated vehicle routing problem experiments smacsa compared ten stateoftheart metaheuristics results also analyzed friedman wilcoxon ranksum test experimental results statistical tests demonstrate smacsa algorithm competitive often superior compared algorithms used experiments results proposed algorithm capacitated vehicle routing problem demonstrate efficiency discrete solving ability