TY - CHAP AU - Shahab Mohammad-Moradi AU - Hamid Khaloozadeh AU - Mohamad Forouzanfar AU - Ramezan Paravi Torghabeh AU - Nosratallah Forghani ED - Aleksandar Lazinica Y1 - 2009-01-01 PY - 2009 T1 - Swarm Intelligence in Portfolio Selection N2 - Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based stochastic optimization technique influenced by the social behavior of bird flocking or fish schooling.PSO shares many similarities with evolutionary computation techniques such as Genetic Algorithms (GA). The system is initialized with a population of random solutions and searches for optima by updating generations. However, unlike GA, PSO has no evolution operators such as crossover and mutation. In PSO, the potential solutions, called particles, fly through the problem space by following the current optimum particles. This book represents the contributions of the top researchers in this field and will serve as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field. BT - Particle Swarm Optimization SP - Ch. 13 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/6750 DO - 10.5772/6750 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -