Electrical and electronic engineers survey how algorithms that mimic the interaction of social animals can be used in the design and optimization of circuits, antenna and optical devices, control, and scheduling and diagnosis. Their topics include designing and optimizing microwave circuits and devices with particle swarm optimizer, a particle swarm optimization algorithm in reconfigurable radiators and cancer detection as case studies of electromagnetics, the optimal design and characterization of fiber amplifiers doped with rare earths, using swarm intelligence for optimizing parameters in approximations of fractional-order operators, and the nondestructive analysis of dielectric bodies by means of an ant colony optimization method.
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