The particle swarm - explosion, stability, and convergence in a multidimensional complex space

2002 · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 9,000 citations · 15 from inside this corpus

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Particle swarm optimization	2002	48,447
Handbook of Genetic Algorithms	1991	7,316
Comparing inertia weights and constriction factors in particle swarm optimization	2002	2,966

What cites it, inside the corpus

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Particle swarm optimization	2007	21,409
Comprehensive learning particle swarm optimizer for global optimization of multimodal fun…	2006	3,758
Particle swarm optimization algorithm: an overview	2017	3,300
Self-Organizing Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimizer With Time-Varying Acceleration Coef…	2004	3,038
The particle swarm optimization algorithm: convergence analysis and parameter selection	2003	2,641
Particle swarm optimization in electromagnetics	2004	2,258
A Cooperative Approach to Particle Swarm Optimization	2004	2,142
Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization	2009	2,057
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Its Applications: A Systematic Review	2022	1,842
The Fully Informed Particle Swarm: Simpler, Maybe Better	2004	1,753
The swarm and the queen: towards a deterministic and adaptive particle swarm optimization	2003	1,697
A survey on optimization metaheuristics	2013	1,580
An analysis of particle swarm optimizers	2002	1,433
Particle Swarm Optimization: A Comprehensive Survey	2022	1,399
A study of particle swarm optimization particle trajectories	2005	1,398

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications	Computer Science
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms	Computer Science

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