Firefly algorithm: A brief review of the expanding literature

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 516, Issue , 2014, Pages 347-360

  Fister, Iztok ^a,a   Yang, Xin She ^b   Fister, Dušan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Discrete firefly algorithm; Engineering optimization; Firefly algorithm; Nature inspired algorithm; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958744587     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02141-6_17     Document Type: Article

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