Talk:Artificial bee colony algorithm: Difference between revisions

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:: {{ping|Michaelmalak}} This is a [[WP:PROD|proposed deletion]], so you may simply remove the tag if you disagree.

:: I do wish to make a case for why it probably shouldn't be kept: I think this particular algorithm has generated a few more citations than the [[firefly algorithm]] because it has been around for a few years longer. To me it appears that a certain group of researchers in this field has just become very good at gaming the [[h-index]] system (take an existing algorithm, tweak the metaphor, write a Wikipedia article, publish a bunch of "applications" in journals run by that same group, repeat), so I'd be very careful about equating the number of citations Google Scholar reports with notability.

:: I don'tdo not immediately see the difference between this algorithm and [[ant colony optimization]], which has been around for quite a bit longer. I do not, unfortunately, posses a reliable source that I could use to criticize this algorithm in the article on this point. (This is the whole problem with all these metaheuristics, the junk gets published at a faster rate than could be dubunked by the good scientists.) —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 13:45, 19 July 2016 (UTC)