{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/firefly-algorithm-for-optimization-problems","title":"Firefly Algorithm for optimization problems with non-continuous variables: A Review and Analysis","arxiv_id":"1602.07884","date":"2016-02-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Surafel Luleseged Tilahun","Jean Medard T Ngnotchouye"],"abstract":"Firefly algorithm is a swarm based metaheuristic algorithm inspired by the\nflashing behavior of fireflies. It is an effective and an easy to implement\nalgorithm. It has been tested on different problems from different disciplines\nand found to be effective. Even though the algorithm is proposed for\noptimization problems with continuous variables, it has been modified and used\nfor problems with non-continuous variables, including binary and integer valued\nproblems. In this paper a detailed review of this modifications of firefly\nalgorithm for problems with non-continuous variables will be discussed. The\nstrength and weakness of the modifications along with possible future works\nwill be presented.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07884v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07884v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[],"methods":[{"method_slug":"firefly-algorithm","method_name":"Firefly algorithm"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[{"slug":"firefly-algorithm","name":"Firefly algorithm","full_name":"Firefly algorithm"}],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}