Crawford, B.Soto, R.Córdova, J.Olguín, E.6/22/20222022-06-226/22/20222022-06-222016https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33625-1_39The Set Covering Problem is a classic combinatorial problem which is looking for solutions to cover needs on a geographic area. In this paper, we applied new ideas to solve The Set Covering Problem. Intelligent Water Drop is a nature inspired algorithm based on water drops behavior on natural river systems and the events that change the nature of water drop and the river environment. It observes that a river can find an optimum path to its goal. The results of experiments seems to be promising with certain configurations for the instances given by OR-Library J.E. Beasley. In addition an innovation was introduced in the algorithm in order to obtain results. Also a heuristic undesirability chosen is presented in this paper. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.application/pdfen-USinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessComputer ScienceEngineeringinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject10.1007/978-3-319-33625-1_39http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.04