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Published inJan 2020
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Eyal Wirsansky
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Eyal Wirsansky

Eyal Wirsansky is a senior data scientist, an experienced software engineer, a technology community leader, and an artificial intelligence researcher. Eyal began his software engineering career over twenty-five years ago as a pioneer in the field of Voice over IP. He currently works as a member of the data platform team at Gradle, Inc. During his graduate studies, he focused his research on genetic algorithms and neural networks. A notable result of this research is a novel supervised machine learning algorithm that integrates both approaches. In addition to his professional roles, Eyal serves as an adjunct professor at Jacksonville University, where he teaches a class on artificial intelligence. He also leads both the Jacksonville, Florida Java User Group and the Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise virtual user group, and authors the developer-focused artificial intelligence blog, ai4java.
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Particle swarm optimization

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) draws its inspiration from natural groupings of individual organisms, such as flocks of birds or schools of fish, generally referred to as swarms. The organisms interact within the swarm without central supervision, working together toward a common goal. This observed behavior gave rise to a computational method that can solve or optimize a given problem by using a group of candidate solutions represented by particles analogous to organisms in a swarm. The particles move in the search space, looking for the best solution, and their movement is governed by simple rules that involve their position and velocity (directional speed).

The PSO algorithm is iterative, and in each iteration, every particle's position gets evaluated, and its best location so far, as well as the best location within the entire group of particles...

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Eyal Wirsansky

Eyal Wirsansky is a senior data scientist, an experienced software engineer, a technology community leader, and an artificial intelligence researcher. Eyal began his software engineering career over twenty-five years ago as a pioneer in the field of Voice over IP. He currently works as a member of the data platform team at Gradle, Inc. During his graduate studies, he focused his research on genetic algorithms and neural networks. A notable result of this research is a novel supervised machine learning algorithm that integrates both approaches. In addition to his professional roles, Eyal serves as an adjunct professor at Jacksonville University, where he teaches a class on artificial intelligence. He also leads both the Jacksonville, Florida Java User Group and the Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise virtual user group, and authors the developer-focused artificial intelligence blog, ai4java.
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