A concise overview of particle swarm optimization methods

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a meta-heuristic method of global, inferred, proposed by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1995. It is currently one of the most commonly used search methods. This review provides a brief overview of PSO research in recent years – swarm and rate initialization methods in PSO, modifications, neighborhood topologies, hybridization, and an overview of various PSO applications.