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28 Citations
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2 October 2024

Swarm Intelligence (SI) represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence, leveraging the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems to solve complex problems. This study provides a comprehensive review of SI, focusing on its a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,820 Views
18 Pages

Researchers of team behavior have long been interested in the essential components of effective teamwork. Much existing research focuses on examining correlations between team member traits, team processes, and team outcomes, such as collective intel...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
131 Citations
12,928 Views
27 Pages

A Survey of Using Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in IoT

  • Weifeng Sun,
  • Min Tang,
  • Lijun Zhang,
  • Zhiqiang Huo and
  • Lei Shu

5 March 2020

With the continuing advancements in technologies (such as machine to machine, wireless telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and big data analysis), the Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect everything for information sharing and intelligen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,476 Views
28 Pages

Swarm-Intelligence Optimization Method for Dynamic Optimization Problem

  • Rui Liu,
  • Yuanbin Mo,
  • Yanyue Lu,
  • Yucheng Lyu,
  • Yuedong Zhang and
  • Haidong Guo

25 May 2022

In recent years, the vigorous rise in computational intelligence has opened up new research ideas for solving chemical dynamic optimization problems, making the application of swarm-intelligence optimization techniques more and more widespread. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,829 Views
20 Pages

Modeling Firm Search and Innovation Trajectory Using Swarm Intelligence

  • Ren-Raw Chen,
  • Cameron D. Miller and
  • Puay Khoon Toh

22 January 2023

We developed a swarm intelligence-based model to study firm search across innovation topics. Firm search modeling has primarily been “firm-centric,” emphasizing the firm’s own prior performance. Fields interested in firm search beha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,601 Views
24 Pages

3 March 2022

The paper introduces a new approach to enhance optimization algorithms when solving the piecewise linearization problem of a given function. Eight swarm intelligence algorithms were selected to be experimentally compared. The problem is represented b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,616 Views
19 Pages

26 March 2024

Different kinds of swarm intelligence algorithm obtain superior performances in solving complex optimization problems and have been widely used in path planning of drones. Due to their own characteristics, the optimization results may vary greatly in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,841 Views
8 Pages

1 December 2003

Modeling biological and natural systems in order to solve complex problems have become popular. Traditional techniques fail at solving some types of problems. On the other hand, it is seen that these kind of problems are solved in nature without help...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,483 Views
15 Pages

Nowadays, the high-dimensionality of data causes a variety of problems in machine learning. It is necessary to reduce the feature number by selecting only the most relevant of them. Different approaches called Feature Selection are used for this task...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,855 Views
21 Pages

A Diversity Model Based on Dimension Entropy and Its Application to Swarm Intelligence Algorithm

  • Hongwei Kang,
  • Fengfan Bei,
  • Yong Shen,
  • Xingping Sun and
  • Qingyi Chen

27 March 2021

The swarm intelligence algorithm has become an important method to solve optimization problems because of its excellent self-organization, self-adaptation, and self-learning characteristics. However, when a traditional swarm intelligence algorithm fa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
345 Citations
23,037 Views
31 Pages

Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Feature Selection: A Review

  • Lucija Brezočnik,
  • Iztok Fister and
  • Vili Podgorelec

1 September 2018

The increasingly rapid creation, sharing and exchange of information nowadays put researchers and data scientists ahead of a challenging task of data analysis and extracting relevant information out of data. To be able to learn from data, the dimensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,492 Views
25 Pages

Swarm Intelligence in Internet of Medical Things: A Review

  • Roohallah Alizadehsani,
  • Mohamad Roshanzamir,
  • Navid Hoseini Izadi,
  • Raffaele Gravina,
  • H. M. Dipu Kabir,
  • Darius Nahavandi,
  • Hamid Alinejad-Rokny,
  • Abbas Khosravi,
  • U. Rajendra Acharya and
  • Giancarlo Fortino
  • + 1 author

28 January 2023

Continuous advancements of technologies such as machine-to-machine interactions and big data analysis have led to the internet of things (IoT) making information sharing and smart decision-making possible using everyday devices. On the other hand, sw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,323 Views
24 Pages

Design of Swarm Intelligence Control Based on Double-Layer Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Xiangpei Yan,
  • Guorui Yu,
  • Guoke Huang,
  • Ruchuan Zhou and
  • Liu Hao

14 April 2025

Traditional methods have limitations regarding efficient collaboration and dynamic response in complex dynamic environments. Although existing swarm intelligence control methods possess certain adaptive optimization capabilities, they still face chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,986 Views
20 Pages

The protection of plants in mountainous and hilly areas differs from that in plain areas due to the complex terrain, which divides the work plot into many narrow plots. When designing the path planning method for plant protection UAVs, it is importan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,968 Views
13 Pages

10 September 2020

The swarm intelligence (SI)-based bio-inspired algorithm demonstrates features of heterogeneous individual agents, such as stability, scalability, and adaptability, in distributed and autonomous environments. The said algorithm will be applied to the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,599 Views
36 Pages

Image processing technology has always been a hot and difficult topic in the field of artificial intelligence. With the rise and development of machine learning and deep learning methods, swarm intelligence algorithms have become a hot research direc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,885 Views
24 Pages

16 November 2023

Swarm intelligence has promising applications for firm search and decision-choice problems and is particularly well suited for examining how other firms influence the focal firm’s search. To evaluate search performance, researchers examining fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,693 Views
30 Pages

Spatial-Temporal Sub-Pixel Mapping Based on Swarm Intelligence Theory

  • Da He,
  • Yanfei Zhong,
  • Ruyi Feng and
  • Liangpei Zhang

29 October 2016

In the past decades, sub-pixel mapping algorithms have been extensively developed due to the large number of different applications. However, most of the sub-pixel mapping algorithms are based on single-temporal images, and the results are usually co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,600 Views
38 Pages

On the Initialization of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Vector Quantization Codebook Design

  • Verusca Severo,
  • Felipe B. S. Ferreira,
  • Rodrigo Spencer,
  • Arthur Nascimento and
  • Francisco Madeiro

19 April 2024

Vector Quantization (VQ) is a technique with a wide range of applications. For example, it can be used for image compression. The codebook design for VQ has great significance in the quality of the quantized signals and can benefit from the use of sw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,304 Views
34 Pages

Fault Diagnosis in Analog Circuits Using Swarm Intelligence

  • Nadia Nedjah,
  • Jalber Dinelli Luna Galindo,
  • Luiza de Macedo Mourelle and
  • Fernanda Duarte Vilela Reis de Oliveira

Open or short-circuit faults, as well as discrete parameter faults, are the most commonly used models in the simulation prior to testing methodology. However, since analog circuits exhibit continuous responses to input signals, faults in specific cir...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,067 Views
27 Pages

Emerging Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Their Applications in Antenna Design: The GWO, WOA, and SSA Optimizers

  • Achilles D. Boursianis,
  • Maria S. Papadopoulou,
  • Marco Salucci,
  • Alessandro Polo,
  • Panagiotis Sarigiannidis,
  • Konstantinos Psannis,
  • Seyedali Mirjalili,
  • Stavros Koulouridis and
  • Sotirios K. Goudos

8 September 2021

Swarm Intelligence (SI) Algorithms imitate the collective behavior of various swarms or groups in nature. In this work, three representative examples of SI algorithms have been selected and thoroughly described, namely the Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,704 Views
18 Pages

4 May 2021

Text document clustering refers to the unsupervised classification of textual documents into clusters based on content similarity and can be applied in applications such as search optimization and extracting hidden information from data generated by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,048 Views
18 Pages

10 January 2019

The objective of this study is to focus on boric acid extraction from the mineral tincal, in order to determine the optimum conditions thanks to the ultrasonic-assisted extraction (UAE) technique (with the response surface methodology (RSM) for the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,019 Views
24 Pages

11 November 2022

A two-stage damage identification method for beam structures based on support vector machine and swarm intelligence optimization algorithms is proposed. First, the frequencies and mode shapes of the beam structure are obtained using the smooth orthog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,650 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2025

Humanoid soccer robots operate in dynamic, unpredictable, and often partially observable settings. Effective teamwork, sound decision-making, and real-time collaboration are critical to competitive performance. In this paper, a biologically inspired...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,376 Views
20 Pages

17 May 2020

Weapon-target assignment (WTA) is a kind of NP-complete problem in military operations research. To solve the multilayer defense WTA problems when the information about enemy’s attacking plan is symmetric to the defender, we propose four heuris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,812 Views
21 Pages

A New Approach to Enhanced Swarm Intelligence Applied to Video Target Tracking

  • Edwards Cerqueira de Castro,
  • Evandro Ottoni Teatini Salles and
  • Patrick Marques Ciarelli

9 March 2021

This work proposes a new approach to improve swarm intelligence algorithms for dynamic optimization problems by promoting a balance between the transfer of knowledge and the diversity of particles. The proposed method was designed to be applied to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,818 Views
20 Pages

4 March 2024

Cross-border e-commerce logistics activities increasingly use multimodal transportation modes. In this transportation mode, the use of high-performance optimizers to provide decision support for multimodal transportation for cross-border e-commerce n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,032 Views
31 Pages

25 October 2025

Utilizing a dataset of 190 risk factors spanning over three decades, we apply a swarm-based classification model to estimate factor velocity and analyze its implications for asset pricing. Our results show that slower-moving factors generate higher a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,972 Views
28 Pages

Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Mobile Wireless Charging

  • Gerald K. Ijemaru,
  • Kenneth Li-Minn Ang and
  • Jasmine Kah Phooi Seng

This paper proposes energy-efficient swarm intelligence (SI)-based approaches for efficient mobile wireless charging in a distributed large-scale wireless sensor network (LS-WSN). This approach considers the use of special multiple mobile elements, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,360 Views
41 Pages

7 December 2021

Off-site construction is a modern construction method that brings many sustainability merits to the built environment. However, the sub-optimal planning decisions (e.g., resource allocation, logistics and overtime planning decisions) of off-site cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,986 Views
29 Pages

14 July 2020

In this study, a novel type of swarm intelligence algorithm referred as the anas platyrhynchos optimizer is proposed by simulating the cluster action of the anas platyrhynchos. Starting from the core of swarm intelligence algorithm, on the premise of...

  • Review
  • Open Access

As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become integral to critical infrastructure, ranging from precision agriculture to emergency disaster recovery, their security becomes a matter of systemic resilience. This paper provides a comprehensive thematic sur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,675 Views
46 Pages

A Survey of Swarm Intelligence Based Load Balancing Techniques in Cloud Computing Environment

  • M. A. Elmagzoub,
  • Darakhshan Syed,
  • Asadullah Shaikh,
  • Noman Islam,
  • Abdullah Alghamdi and
  • Syed Rizwan

8 November 2021

Cloud computing offers flexible, interactive, and observable access to shared resources on the Internet. It frees users from the requirements of managing computing on their hardware. It enables users to not only store their data and computing over th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,089 Views
21 Pages

The hybrid cloud has attracted more and more attention from various fields by combining the benefits of both private and public clouds. Task scheduling is still a challenging open issue to optimize user satisfaction and resource efficiency for provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,081 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2023

This study employs a supervised learning method to predict the tunnel boring machine (TBM) penetration rate (PR) with high accuracy. To this end, the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model is optimized based on two swarm intelligence algorithms, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,117 Views
31 Pages

15 January 2021

Path-planning for uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAV) is a typically complicated global optimization problem. It seeks a superior flight path in a complex battlefield environment, taking into various constraints. Many swarm intelligence (SI) algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,199 Views
23 Pages

12 May 2020

This paper presents a proposal to apply one of the swarm intelligence algorithms, the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, to solve the inverse problem of steel ingot continuous casting. The discussed task consists of retrieving the cooling conditi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
474 Views
9 Pages

8 September 2025

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of distributed sensor nodes deployed for real-time monitoring and data collection. Optimizing sensor energy consumption is critical for extending the overall network lifespan. In large-scale WSNs, clustering te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,648 Views
23 Pages

31 July 2024

Delivery apps are experiencing significant growth, requiring efficient algorithms to coordinate transportation and generate profits. One problem that considers the goals of delivery apps is the multi-vehicle profitable pickup and delivery problem (MV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,973 Views
31 Pages

Urban drone applications require efficient path planning to ensure safe and optimal navigation through complex environments. Drawing inspiration from the collective intelligence of animal groups and electoral processes in human societies, this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,928 Views
23 Pages

21 August 2023

This work presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of four prominent swarm intelligence (SI) optimization algorithms: Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO), Bat Algorithm (BA), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), and Moth Flame Optimization (MFO). When compared under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,441 Views
43 Pages

Swarm Intelligence-Based Multi-Objective Optimization Applied to Industrial Cooling Towers for Energy Efficiency

  • Nadia Nedjah,
  • Luiza de Macedo Mourelle and
  • Marcelo Silveira Dantas Lizarazu

21 September 2022

Cooling towers constitute a fundamental part of refrigeration systems in power plants and large commercial buildings. Their main function is to treat the heat emitted by other equipment to cool down the temperature of the environment and/or processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,354 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2024

Industrial control systems (ICSs), which are fundamental to the operation of critical infrastructure, face increasingly sophisticated security threats due to the integration of information and operational technologies. Conventional anomaly detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,136 Views
31 Pages

Application of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Boosted with Swarm Intelligence for Spam Email Filtering

  • Nebojsa Bacanin,
  • Miodrag Zivkovic,
  • Catalin Stoean,
  • Milos Antonijevic,
  • Stefana Janicijevic,
  • Marko Sarac and
  • Ivana Strumberger

8 November 2022

Spam represents a genuine irritation for email users, since it often disturbs them during their work or free time. Machine learning approaches are commonly utilized as the engine of spam detection solutions, as they are efficient and usually exhibit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,068 Views
24 Pages

10 August 2023

Sensor management is a crucial research subject for multi-sensor multi-target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with limited resources. Bearings-only tracking produces further challenges related to high nonlinearity and poor observability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,332 Views
21 Pages

Hybrid Swarm Intelligence Optimization Methods for Low-Embodied Energy Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges

  • David Martínez-Muñoz,
  • Jose García,
  • Jose V. Martí and
  • Víctor Yepes

27 December 2022

Bridge optimization is a significant challenge, given the huge number of possible configurations of the problem. Embodied energy and cost were taken as objective functions for a box-girder steel–concrete optimization problem considering both as...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,979 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2021

Biological omics data such as transcriptomes and methylomes have the inherent “large p small n” paradigm, i.e., the number of features is much larger than that of the samples. A feature selection (FS) algorithm selects a subset of the transcriptomic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,870 Views
21 Pages

This paper concerns the fire-control command calculation (FCCC) of an unmanned autonomous helicopter (UAH). It determines the final effect of the UAH attack. Although many different FCCC methods have been proposed for finding optimal or near-optimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
447 Views
23 Pages

16 December 2025

Home energy management systems have emerged as a crucial solution for enhancing energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and facilitating the integration of renewable energy sources into homes. To fully realize their potential, these systems&rsq...

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