Particle Swarm Optimization

Particle Swarm Optimization is a computational optimization algorithm belonging to the class of metaheuristic search techniques, distinguished by its simulation of social foraging behavior in swarms to iteratively explore and exploit solution spaces for finding optimal or near-optimal solutions.

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57.2K

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2017–2026

12.8K

Authors

57.2K

  1. AP
    Andries P. Engelbrecht

    University of Pretoria, South Africa

    109 publications · 10.9K citations

    47

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  2. SM
    Seyedali Mirjalili

    Torrens University Australia, Australia

    58 publications · 26K citations

    41

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  3. JZ
    Jun Zhang

    Sun Yat-sen University, China

    70 publications · 10.3K citations

    38

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  4. YS
    Yuhui Shi

    Southern University of Science and Technology, China

    51 publications · 12.8K citations

    37

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  5. AA
    Ajith Abraham

    Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States

    81 publications · 6K citations

    35

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  1. Applied Soft Computing

    444 publications · 37.4K citations

    103

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  2. IEEE Access

    895 publications · 47.7K citations

    101

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  3. Expert Systems with Applications

    298 publications · 28.9K citations

    94

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  4. Information Sciences

    207 publications · 21K citations

    81

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

    106 publications · 50.4K citations

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