Download or read book Particle Swarm Optimization written by Maurice Clerc and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted entirely to Particle SwarmOptimization (PSO), which is a non-specific algorithm, similar toevolutionary algorithms, such as taboo search and ant colonies. Since its original development in 1995, PSO has mainly beenapplied to continuous-discrete heterogeneous strongly non-linearnumerical optimization and it is thus used almost everywhere in theworld. Its convergence rate also makes it a preferred tool indynamic optimization.