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Swarm Intelligence in Evacuation Problems: A Review

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In this paper authors introduce swarm intelligence’s algorithms (ACO and PSO) to determine the optimum path during an evacuation process. Different PSO algorithms are compared when applied to an evacuation process and results reveal important aspects, as following detailed.

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Guizzi, G., Gargiulo, F., Santillo, L.C., Fujita, H. (2015). Swarm Intelligence in Evacuation Problems: A Review. In: Fujita, H., Guizzi, G. (eds) Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. SoMeT 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 532. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22689-7_25

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