# Particle Swarm Optimization

- **Authors**: James Kennedy, Russell Eberhart
- **Year**: 1995
- **Summary**: This paper introduced the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, another key pillar of swarm intelligence. Inspired by the flocking of birds, PSO is a population-based optimization technique where particles (candidate solutions) fly through the search space, influenced by their own best-found position and the global best-found position of the swarm, to find the optimal solution.
- **Link**: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/494215
