...Babak Talatahari; Mahdi Azizi; Siamak Talatahari; Mohamad Tolouei; Pooya Sareh Purpose In this paper, the authors aim to examine and comparatively evaluate a recently-developed metaheuristic called crystal structure algorithm (CryStAl) – which is inspired by the symmetries in the internal...

... or fish schooling. PSO provides similitude with evolutionary calculation techniques, for example, genetic algorithms (GA). The system is initialized with a population of random solutions and searches for optima by updating generations. However, unlike GA, PSO has no development administrators, for example...