Swarm intelligence for electric and electronic engineering / Girolamo Fornarelli, Luciano Mescia, [editors].

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book provides an exchange of knowledge on the advances, discoveries and improvements of swarm intelligence in electric and electronic engineering, bringing together new swarm-based algorithms and their effect on complex problems and various real-world applications"-- Provided by publisher.

Design and Optimization of Microwave Circuits and Devices with the Particle Swarm Optimizer -- Microwave Circuit Design -- MO-TRIBES for the Optimal Design of Analog Filters -- Design Automation, Modeling, Optimization, and Testing of Analog/RF Circuits and Systems by Particle Swarm Optimization -- Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm in Electromagnetics- Case Studies: Reconfigurable Radiators and Cancer Detection -- Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms Applied to Antenna and Microwave Design Problems -- Optimum Design and Characterization of Rare Earth-Doped Fibre Amplifiers by Means of Particle Swarm Optimization Approach -- Optimum Design of Hybrid EDFA/FRA by Particle Swarm Optimization -- Distributed Task Allocation in Swarms of Robots -- Using Swarm Intelligence for Optimization of Parameters in Approximations of Fractional-Order Operators1 -- Optimal Location of the Workpiece in a PKM-based Machining Robotic Cell -- The Generalized Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm: Idea, Analysis, and Engineering Applications -- Transmission Expansion Planning by using DC and AC Models and Particle Swarm Optimization -- Short-Term Generation Scheduling Solved with a Particle Swarm Optimizer -- Nondestructive Analysis of Dielectric Bodies by Means of an Ant Colony Optimization Method -- The Use of Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Methods in EEG Based BCI Systems.