Particle Swarms in Statistical Physics
Andrei Bãutu, Elena Bãutu · InTech eBooks · 2009
This chapter presented the basic traits of Particle Swarm Optimization and its applications for some well known problems in Statistical Physics. Recent research results presented in the literature for these problems prove that PSO can find high quality solutions in reasonable times (Butu et al, 2007; Butu & Butu, 2008). However, many questions are still open: how do the parameters setups relate to the problems tackled? how can we improve the basic PSO to get state of the are results? how can we tackle very large size systems?