Particle Swarm Optimization

 

A particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based stochastic optimisation technique and simulates the flight of a population of particles in a multidimensional space, where each particle represents a potential solution to the optimisation problem.

Typically, a PSO employs a population of particles, pso_1.jpg (2446 bytes), called a swarm, pso_2.jpg (2347 bytes),  which probe the search space simultaneously. Each particle is initialised to a random position in the search space then, at each iteration, each particle moves with an adaptive velocity influenced by

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