Swarm Intelligence Algorithms

98 Crow Search Algorithm

those algorithms CSA has fewer configurable parameters and thus it reduces

the effort of parameter setting which is time-consuming work. CSA can be

applied for various engineering optimization problems and in the original arti-

cle that introduces the algorithm [1], several applications are presented such

as the three-bar truss, the welded beam and the gear train design problems.

The solutions of CSA are represented by crows, and each crow has a posi-

tion in the D-dimensional space, a memory and a fitness value. Even though

CSA is a novel bio-inspired algorithm, in literature there are already a lot of

variations of it such as: ...