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Particle Swarm Optimization and Intelligence
Parsopoulos, Konstantinos E. · 2010
70/100
👍 Worth It
For the narrow audience it targets — graduate students and active researchers in computational intelligence — this is the single most focused PSO reference available, and its coverage of both theory and applications is genuinely comprehensive. It has no use whatsoever outside that circle, and post-2010 literature has inevitably moved the field forward. Worth it if PSO is your research domain; everyone else should keep scrolling.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety98
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing65
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit80
👁 Human-eye gut-check62
Penny’s verdict70
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