Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Αλγόριθμος Βελτιστοποίησης Φάλαινας (WOA)	Βελτιστοποίηση Σμήνους Σωματιδίων (PSO)
Πεδίο	Βελτιστοποίηση	Βελτιστοποίηση
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2016	1995
Δημιουργός	Seyedali Mirjalili & Andrew Lewis	—
Τύπος	Swarm-based metaheuristic	Population-based metaheuristic / swarm intelligence
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Mirjalili, S. & Lewis, A. (2016). The Whale Optimization Algorithm. Advances in Engineering Software, 95, 51-67.	Kennedy, J. & Eberhart, R. (1995). Particle Swarm Optimization. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN), 1942-1948.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	WOA, Balina Optimizasyon Algoritması (WOA), bubble-net attacking method	PSO, swarm intelligence optimization, Parçacık Sürü Optimizasyonu (PSO)
Συναφείς	5	6
Σύνοψη	The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is a swarm-based metaheuristic introduced by Mirjalili and Lewis in 2016. It models the bubble-net hunting strategy of humpback whales, in which a group of whales spirals around prey while gradually tightening the encirclement. The algorithm balances global exploration and local exploitation through a small set of parameters and has become widely used in continuous engineering optimisation problems.	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.