Special Issue: Particle Swarm Optimization
Guest Editors : Maurice Clerc,  James Kennedy and Patrick Siarry

CONTENTS

Editorial

How It Works: Collaborative Trial and Error
James Kennedy

Why does it work?
Maurice Clerc

Theoretical analysis of particle swarm trajectories through a mechanical analogy
J.L. Fernández-Martínez, E. García-Gonzalo and J.P. Fernández-Alvarez

Stochastic Star Communication Topology in Evolutionary Particle Swarms (EPSO)
Vladimiro Miranda, Hrvoje Keko and Álvaro Jaramillo Duque

Angle Modulated Particle Swarm Optimization Based Islanding of Large Scale Power Systems
Wenxin Liu, Li Liu and David A. Cartes

Social Impact and Optimization
Martin Macas and Lenka Lhotska

A Taxonomy of Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizers
Mohammed El-Abd and Mohamed S. Kamel

Multi objective particle swarm optimization using enhanced dominance and guide selection
Gerard Dupont, Sebastien Adam, Yves Lecourtier and Bruno Grilheres

Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Bicriteria Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem
Ozgur Uysal and Serol Bulkan

Particle Swarm Optimization For Quadratic Assignment Problems–A Forma Analysis Approach
Tao Gong and Andrew L. Tuson

A New Approach to Evolutionary Tree Reconstruction Combining Particle Swarm Optimization with p-ECR
Jianfu Li and Maozu Guo

Multi-robot search using a physically-embedded Particle Swarm Optimization
James Hereford and Michael Siebold

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Parameter Identification using Particle Swarm Optimization
Li Liu, Wenxin Liu and David A. Cartes