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Book Chapters
, 2021, 'Mission Planning for Shepherding a Swarm of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles', in Shepherding UxVs for Human-Swarm Teaming An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Unmanned X Vehicles, Springer Nature, pp. 87 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60898-9_5
, 2016, 'A cooperative structure-redesigned-based bacterial foraging optimization with guided and stochastic movements', in , pp. 918 - 927, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42294-7_82
, 2016, 'Artificial bee colony optimization for yard truck scheduling and storage allocation problem', in , pp. 908 - 917, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42294-7_81
, 2016, 'Brain storm optimization for portfolio optimization', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 416 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41009-8_45
, 2016, 'Neighborhood learning bacterial foraging optimization for solving multi-objective problems', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 433 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41009-8_47
, 2016, 'Group Discussion Mechanism Based Particle Swarm Optimization', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, pp. 88 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42297-8_9
, 2015, 'Improved bacterial foraging optimization algorithm with information communication mechanism for nurse scheduling', in , pp. 701 - 707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22186-1_69
, 2015, 'SRBFOs for solving the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem', in , pp. 725 - 732, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22186-1_72
, 2014, 'Bacterial colony optimization for integrated yard truck scheduling and storage allocation problem', in , pp. 431 - 437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09330-7_50
Journal articles
, 2025, 'Path Planning for Multi-UAV in a Complex Environment Based on Reinforcement-Learning-Driven Continuous Ant Colony Optimization', Drones, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones9090638
, 2025, 'Path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles in complex environment based on an improved continuous ant colony optimisation', Computers and Electrical Engineering, 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.110034
, 2025, 'A Decomposition-Based Hybrid Algorithm for Large-Scale Project Portfolio Selection and Scheduling With Reaction to Changing Environments', IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 72, pp. 2409 - 2423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3568826
, 2025, 'Planning-Assisted Context-Sensitive Autonomous Shepherding of Dispersed Robotic Swarms in Obstacle-Cluttered Environments', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tetci.2025.3620001
, 2024, 'A hierarchical mission planning system for multi-uncrewed ground vehicles using fast cost evaluation and ant colony optimisation', Information Sciences, 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2024.121029
, 2024, 'Large-scale evolutionary optimization: A review and comparative study', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2023.101466
, 2022, 'Modified continuous Ant Colony Optimisation for multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicle path planning', Expert Systems with Applications, 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116605
, 2022, 'A survey, taxonomy and progress evaluation of three decades of swarm optimisation', Artificial Intelligence Review, 55, pp. 3607 - 3725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10095-z
, 2022, 'Multi-operator continuous ant colony optimisation for real world problems', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2021.100984
, 2021, 'Simplified bacterial foraging optimization with quorum sensing for global optimization', International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36, pp. 2639 - 2679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/int.22396
, 2019, 'Cooperative bacterial foraging optimization method for multi-objective multi-echelon supply chain optimization problem', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 49, pp. 87 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2019.05.003
, 2019, 'Multi-swarm cooperative multi-objective bacterial foraging optimisation', International Journal of Bio Inspired Computation, 13, pp. 21 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2019.097724
, 2018, 'Coevolutionary Structure-Redesigned-Based Bacterial Foraging Optimization', IEEE ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 15, pp. 1865 - 1876, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCBB.2017.2742946
, 2017, 'A population-based clustering technique using particle swarm optimization and k-means', Natural Computing, 16, pp. 45 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11047-016-9542-9
Conference Papers
, 2024, 'Large-Scale Project Portfolio Selection and Scheduling Problem: A Comparison of Exact Solvers and Metaheuristics', in 2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2024 Proceedings, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC60901.2024.10612051
, 2023, 'Distance Constrained Robotic Swarm Shepherding Based on Two-Phase Ant Colony Optimisation', in Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, pp. 5224 - 5230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394448
, 2023, 'Effective Robotic Swarm Shepherding in the Presence of Obstacles', in 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC53210.2023.10254040
, 2022, 'ANN-PSO Algorithm Based Signal Transmission Performance Coupling Analysis and Optimization for TSV', in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, pp. 84 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1309-9_8
, 2021, 'UGV Path Planning based on an Improved Continuous Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm', in 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Ssci 2021 Proceedings, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SSCI50451.2021.9659847
, 2020, 'Perceptron-Learning for Scalable and Transparent Dynamic Formation in Swarm-on-Swarm Shepherding', Glasgow, presented at IJCNN 2020, Glasgow
, 2019, 'Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimisation with Limited Local Search for UAV Path Planning', in 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Ssci 2019, pp. 2287 - 2294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SSCI44817.2019.9002992
, 2016, 'Different effects of provider recommendations and consumer reviews on consumers' shopping efficiency for different product types', in 2016 13th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management Icsssm 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2016.7538521
, 2015, 'Evaluation of the comprehensive strength of the listed companies in China's cultural media industry', in 2015 12th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), IEEE, pp. 1 - 5, presented at 2015 12th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 22 June 2015 - 24 June 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsssm.2015.7170306
, 2015, 'Improved bacterial foraging optimization algorithm with information communication mechanism', in Proceedings 2014 10th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Cis 2014, pp. 47 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIS.2014.106