A Review on Convergence Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization

Abstract

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is one of the popular nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms. It has been used in different applications. The convergence analysis is among the key theoretical studies in PSO. This paper discusses major contributions in the convergence analysis of PSO. A systematic classification will be used for the review purpose. Possible future works are also highlighted as to investigate the performance of PSO variants to deal with COPs through theoretical perspective and general discussions on experimental results on merits of the proposed approach.