Solving Optimization Tasks by PSO Algorithms

In this document we describe the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and discuss its performance in solving optimization tasks. PSO is stochastic population-based computational method mainly focused on continuous optimization. We give an introduction to the field of optimization and provide a theoretical description of the PSO method. We have implemented the method in C/C++ and investigated the best working parameter set. The implementation is evaluated on clustering, travelling salesman problem, and function minimization case studies