Accelerated Particle Swarm Optimization

Accelerated PSO, Particle Swarm Optimization

This is an accelerated PSO (APSO), developed by Xin-She Yang in 2008. APSO does not use velocities or any inertia parameter.
A full program for solving nonlinear constrained optimization problem (welded beam design as an example) is provided, which can be extended to solve other continuous optimization problems.