Particle Swarm Optimization

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Particle Swarm Optimization is written by Alex Lazinica and published by BoD – Books on Demand. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9537619486 (ISBN 10) and 9789537619480 (ISBN 13).

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based stochastic optimization technique influenced by the social behavior of bird flocking or fish schooling.PSO shares many similarities with evolutionary computation techniques such as Genetic Algorithms (GA). The system is initialized with a population of random solutions and searches for optima by updating generations. However, unlike GA, PSO has no evolution operators such as crossover and mutation. In PSO, the potential solutions, called particles, fly through the problem space by following the current optimum particles. This book represents the contributions of the top researchers in this field and will serve as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field.