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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2914717758","title":"The Sailfish Optimizer: A novel nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for solving constrained engineering optimization problems","authors":["Soodeh Shadravan","Hamid Reza Naji","Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri"],"authorCount":3,"venue":"Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence","year":2019,"type":"article","citedBy":636,"keywords":["swarm intelligence","local optima avoidance","multimodal test functions","engineering design optimization","nature-inspired metaheuristics","exploration and exploitation"],"topic":{"topic":"Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research","subfield":"Artificial Intelligence","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-20T10:15:36.113Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The Sailfish Optimizer gave promising results on five real-world optimisation problems, which the authors take to suit constrained problems with unknown search spaces.","did":null,"gist":null,"meaning":"The paper introduces the Sailfish Optimizer (SFO), a nature-inspired search method for engineering design problems that have constraints. 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