A Comprehensive Survey on Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Its Applications

Table 5

Application areas of PSO algorithm.

Area	Publication
Electrical and electronic engineering	Ganguly et al. [221], Komsiyah [222], Feng et al. [223], Pekşen et al. [224], Yang et al. [225], de Mendonça et al. [226], Liu et al. [227], Aich and Banerjee [228], Chou et al. [229], Lee et al. [230], Thakral and Bakhshi [231], Fister et al. [232], Aghaei et al. [233], Selakov et al. [234], Shirvany et al. [235], and Tungadio et al. [236]
Automatic control	Cai and Yang [237], Kolomvatsos and Hadjieftymiades [238], Pandey et al. [239], Štimac et al. [240], Nedic et al. [241], Chang and Chen [242], Xiang et al. [243], Danapalasingam [244], Mahmoodabadi et al. [245], Zhong et al. [246], Perng et al. [247], Huang and Li [248], and Nisha and Pillai [249]
Communication	Yousefi et al. [250], Sun et al. [251], Yongqiang et al. [252], Chiu et al. [253], Zubair and Moinuddin [255], Kim and Lee [256], Yazgan and Hakki Cavdar [257], Rabady and Ababneh [258], Das et al. [259], Scott-Hayward and Garcia-Palacios [260], Omidvar and Mohammadi [261], and Kuila and Jana [262]
Operations	Liu and Wang [263], Che et al. [264], Hajipour and Pasandideh [265], Cabrerizo et al. [266], Prescilla and Selvakumar [267], Duan et al. [268], Belmecheri et al. [269], Hu et al. [270], Al Badawia and Shatnawi [271], Goksal et al. [272], Zhang et al. [273], and Kechagiopoulos and Beligiannis [274]
Mechanical engineering	Ming et al. [275], Chen et al. [276], Mohan et al. [277], Chen et al. [278], Zhang et al. [279], Wang et al. [280], Lazrag et al. [281], Lee et al. [282], Lake et al. [283], Vosoughi and Gerist [284], Ribeiro et al. [285], Kitak et al. [286], and Kalatehjari et al. [287]
Civil engineering	Ashuri and Tavakolan [288], Bozorgi-Amiri et al. [289], Sadoghi Yazdi et al. [290], Bolat et al. [291], Babu and Vijayalakshmi [292], Mohan et al. [293], Asadnia et al. [294], Yan et al. [295], Wang and Li [296], Sadeghi et al. [297], and Kanović et al. [298]
Fuel and energy	Mandal et al. [299], Chao [300], Chen et al. [301], Hu et al. [302], Tabet et al. [303], Bahrami et al. [304], Askarzadeh [305], Sharafi and Elmekkawy [306], García-Trivio et al. [307], Biao et al. [308], Chen et al. [309], Seyedmahmoudian et al. [310], Aman et al. [311], Xiao and Huang [312], and Lian et al. [313]
Medicine engineering	Qasem and Shamsuddin [314], Zhang et al. [315], Guo et al. [316], Chang et al. [317], Chen et al. [318], Sung and Chiang [319], Cruz-Aceves et al. [320], Subasi [321], Zhang et al. [322], Mangat and Vig [323], Mandal et al. [324], Hsieh et al. [325], and Ganapathy et al. [326]
Chemical engineering	Thakral et al. [327], Parastar et al. [328], Khajeh et al. [329], Wu et al. [330], Khajeh and Dastafkan [331], Thakral et al. [332], Sun and Li [333], Skvortsova [334], Khansary and Sani [335], and Nasimi and Irani [336]
Biological engineering	Saraswathi et al. [337], Mansour et al. [338], Karabulut and Ibrikci [339], Liu et al. [340], Salahi et al. [341], Du et al. [342], Chuang et al. [343], Mandal and Mukhopadhyay [344], Chen et al. [345], and García Nieto et al. [346]