TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Mohamed Emam Zaky AU - Mohamed Bayoumi Ali , AU - Mohamed Hassan Gadallah , TI - A particle swarm technique for treating optimization problems / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mohamed Emam Zaky , KW - Particle swarm optimization KW - Treating optimization problems KW - Triggered particle swarm optimization N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Institute of Statistical Studies and Research - Department of Operation Research; Issued also as CD N2 - Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a stochastic optimization approach modeled on the social behavior of bird flocks . In PSO individuals referred to as particles are flown through hyper dimensional search space adjusting their positions toward an optimum solution . This thesis introduces a new variation of the PSO algorithm called triggered particle swarm optimization (T-PSO) ER -