The main inspiration of SSA is the swarming behaviour of salps when navigating and foraging in oceans. Read this webpage to know more about the inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp

This is the source codes of the paper:

S. Mirjalili, A.H. Gandomi, S.Z. Mirjalili, S. Saremi, H. Faris, S.M. Mirjalili, Salp Swarm Algorithm: A bio-inspired optimizer for engineering design problems, Advances in Engineering Software, in-press, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advengsoft.2017.07.002

If you have no access to the paper, please drop me an email at ali.mirjalili@gmail.com and I will send you the paper.

All of the source codes and extra information as well as more optimization techniques can be found in my personal website at http://www.alimirjalili.com
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