Swarm Intelligence: Principles, current algorithms and methods (Volume 1)

Ying Tan is a full professor, PhD advisor, and director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Peking University, China. He is also a professor at the Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (IJCIPR), and is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEC), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (NNLS), International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR), and International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJAI). He has been the founder general chair of the ICSI International Conference series since 2010, is the inventor of the Fireworks Algorithm (FWA), and has published extensively in this field.