Swarm Intelligence Algorithms (Two Volume Set)

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Firefly Algorithm: Variants and Applications

 

Xin-She Yang

School of Science and TechnologyMiddlesex University, London, United Kingdom

CONTENTS

13.1Introduction

13.2Firefly algorithm

13.2.1Standard FA

13.2.2Special cases of FA

13.3Variants of firefly algorithm

13.3.1Discrete FA

13.3.2Chaos-based FA

13.3.3Randomly attracted FA with varying steps

13.3.4FA via Lévy flights

13.3.5FA with quaternion representation

13.3.6Multi-objective FA

13.3.7Other variants of FA

13.4Applications of FA and its variants

13.5Conclusion

References

 

13.1Introduction

The original firefly algorithm (FA) was first developed by Xin-She Yang in late 2007 and early 2008 [1], based on the flashing characteristics of tropical fireflies. Since then, the FA has ...