Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Andries Engelbrecht, artificial intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Jim Kennedy, networks, particle swarm optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Check out the Editorial (and of course the full issue) for the special issue on Particle Swarm Optimization from the new journal Swarm Intelligence. This issue is edited by two of the most prominent luminaries in the field – Andries Engelbrecht and Jim Kennedy. The former is the author of Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence; the latter, the co-author of the now classic Swarm Intelligence and developer of the PSO algorithm – both books are essential reading in PSO. Please ask your library to subscribe to this high quality journal – swarm intelligence as a topic has relevance to so many endeavors – the implication and application only now being glimpsed. I bet that in five years reference to PSO will become commonplace in the philosophical and the sociological literature.