An analysis of particle swarm optimizers

2002 · UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) · 1,433 citations · 4 from inside this corpus

F. van den Bergh, Andries P. Engelbrecht

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Particle swarm optimization	2002	48,447
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Particle swarm optimization	2007	21,409
Particle swarm optimization algorithm: an overview	2017	3,300
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A study of particle swarm optimization particle trajectories	2005	1,398

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications	Computer Science
Neural Networks and Applications	Computer Science

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