Swarm Intelligence: Principles, Advances, and Applications

This book presents a brief introduction to the mathematical optimization with special attention to swarm-intelligence and their applications, divisions, variants, and hybridizations. Basic concepts related to swarm intelligence are presented such as randomness, random walks and chaos theory, as a preface for many of the variants and enhancements for the various optimization methods. An individual chapter is dedicated for every optimization algorithm covering the biological-base, algorithms, variants, hybridizations and applications. The different optimizers are presented in a standard form so that reader can easily capture similarities and differences amongst them.