Title
A survey of bacterial foraging optimization
Abstract
Bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFO) is a biological-inspired swarm intelligence optimization algorithm that simulates the foraging behavior of bacteria to obtain maximal energy during the searching process. Since its inception, it has evoked wide attention from researchers. The number of articles about BFO and its variants has grown significantly over the past decades and continues to grow. Hence, there is a clear need for a scientific and comparative review of extant BFO literature based on a common framework that offers a quick glimpse of the development of BFO. In light of this, we develop a bibliometric review via using CiteSpace to construct a knowledge mapping, and then conduct a thorough literature review of BFO research. Based on the analytical results, we present the influential researchers, journals or proceedings, and articles, and discuss various key issues of BFO. Finally, we suggest serval research directions that require further attention. This survey is expected to exhibit a lucid outline and useful guidance for the researchers of BFO.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neucom.2020.06.142
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bacterial foraging optimization,Swarm intelligence,CiteSpace,Knowledge mapping
Journal
452
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen Guo100.34
Heng Tang200.68
Ben Niu323544.62
Chang Boon Patrick Lee441.11