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5. Sea Creatures: Salp Swarm Optimization

Shashank Jain1  
(1)
Bangalore, India
 

This chapter introduces you to the salp swarm optimization method, which is another metaheuristic technique. The optimization belongs to a class of animals that live under the sea.

History

Salps belong to the Salpidae family. They have a transparent barrel-shaped body, and their tissues are highly similar to jellyfishes. They move like jellyfish in that water is pumped through the body as propulsion to move forward.

Biological research about these creatures is in its early stages, mainly ...

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