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A numerical solution of anomalous heat conduction equation with Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative over space is presented in this paper. First, a differential scheme is provided to solve the direct problem. Then, the inverse problem is considered, which consists in identifying model parameters such as: thermal conductivity, order of derivative and heat transfer. Data on the basis of which the inverse problem is solved are the temperature values on the right boundary of the considered space. To solve the problem a functional describing the error of the solution is created. By determining the minimum of this functional, unknown parameters of the model are identified. In order to find a solution, selected heuristic algorithms are presented and compared. The following meta-heuristic algorithms are described and used in the paper: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for continous function, Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA), Dynamic Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (DBOA) and Aquila Optimize (AO). 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