Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Αλγόριθμος Πυγολαμπίδων	Βελτιστοποίηση Σμήνους Σωματιδίων (PSO)
Πεδίο	Βελτιστοποίηση	Βελτιστοποίηση
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2008	1995
Δημιουργός	Xin-She Yang	—
Τύπος	Swarm intelligence metaheuristic	Population-based metaheuristic / swarm intelligence
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Yang, X.S. (2010). Firefly Algorithm, Stochastic Test Functions and Design Optimisation. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 2(2), 78-84.	Kennedy, J. & Eberhart, R. (1995). Particle Swarm Optimization. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN), 1942-1948.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	FA, Firefly Optimization, Ateşböceği Algoritması (Firefly Algorithm)	PSO, swarm intelligence optimization, Parçacık Sürü Optimizasyonu (PSO)
Συναφείς	5	6
Σύνοψη	The Firefly Algorithm (FA), introduced by Xin-She Yang in 2008 and formally published in 2010, is a nature-inspired swarm metaheuristic that models the bioluminescent attraction behaviour of fireflies. Each candidate solution is a firefly whose brightness represents its objective-function value; dimmer fireflies move toward brighter ones with an attraction force that decays with distance, driving the swarm toward optima without gradient information.	Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm introduced by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1995, inspired by the collective movement of bird flocks and fish schools. Each candidate solution — called a particle — moves through the search space by updating its velocity and position based on its own best experience and the best experience of the entire swarm, enabling fast convergence across continuous optimization problems.