Tutorial:Recent Advances in Particle Swarm Optimization Analysis and Understanding

The main objective of this tutorial will be to inform particle swarm optimization (PSO) practitioners of the many common misconceptions and falsehoods that are actively hindering a practitioner�s successful use of PSO in solving challenging optimization problems. While the behaviour of PSO�s particles has been studied both theoretically and empirically since its inception in 1995, most practitioners unfortunately have not utilized these studies to guide their use of PSO. This tutorial will provide a succinct coverage of common PSO misconceptions, with a detailed explanation of why the misconceptions are in fact false, and how they are negatively impacting results. The tutorial will also provide recent theoretical results about PSO particle behaviour from which the PSO practitioner can now make better and more informed decisions about PSO and in particular make better PSO parameter selections.