Particle Swarm Optimization

• Other Authors: Lazinica, Aleksandar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2009
• Subjects: Computer architecture & logic design
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 popul...