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For almost all the human activities there is a desire to deliver the most with the least. For example in the business point of view maximum profit is desired from least investment; maximum number of crop yield is desired with minimum investment on fertilizers; maximizing the strength, longevity, efficiency, utilization with minimum initial investment and operational cost of various household as well as industrial equipments and machineries. To set a record in a race, for example, the aim is to do the fastest (shortest time).
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Kulkarni, A.J., Krishnasamy, G., Abraham, A. (2017). Introduction to Optimization. In: Cohort Intelligence: A Socio-inspired Optimization Method. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44254-9_1
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