A survey on firefly algorithms

Jun Li, Xiaoyu Wei, Bo Li, Zhigao Zeng

Abstract: Highlights•The different variants of firefly algorithm are classified and analyzed to summarize the latest research and developments related to nature-inspired computing in the most general sense.•This review has proved that firefly algorithms can be practically applied within every problem domain.Moreover, this review has presented to researchers new technological trends and design challenges they have to cope with, while designing systems using this algorithm.