Swarm Intelligence Algorithms

268 Particle Swarm Optimization

tasks). In the 11th step, the main algorithm loop is started until the termina-

tion criteria are fulfilled. As a termination criterion we can take into account,

for example, the number of generations, the convergence of the algorithm, or

the computational time. In the main algorithm loop, for all particles in swarm

P , we update each j-th element value from the velocity vector V

i

which is

assigned to the particle P

i

(step 15), and we update each j-th element value

from the particle P

i

using values from the previously computed velocity vector

V

i

(step 17). When the particle P

i

is updated, we evaluate the quality of this

particle using the OF (.) function (step 19). Next, in step 20, if the value of

OF (P

i

) is lower than the ...