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Anomaly Detection, Optimization and Control with Swarm Intelligence
This special issue belongs to the section “Computing and Artificial Intelligence“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality original research and review papers from the fields of anomaly detection, optimization and control with swarm intelligence. We encourage researchers from various fields within the journal’s scope to submit papers highlighting the latest developments in the fields of anomaly detection, optimization and control with swarm intelligence, or to invite relevant experts and colleagues to do so. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Anomaly detection with swarm intelligence;
- Optimization with swarm intelligence;
- Control with swarm intelligence;
- Anomaly detection with causal learning;
- Theories and applications of swarm intelligence;
- Anomaly detection, optimization and control of multiple agents;
- Constrained multi-objective optimization and its application with swarm intelligence.
Prof. Dr. Pan Wang
Dr. Xiaomin Zhu
Prof. Dr. Zhun Fan
Guest Editors
Dr. Zhihua Deng
Guest Editor Assistant
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