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	Βελτιστοποίηση Σμήνους Σωματιδίων (PSO)	Διαφορική Εξέλιξη
Πεδίο	Βελτιστοποίηση	Βελτιστοποίηση
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1995	1997
Δημιουργός	—	Rainer Storn & Kenneth Price
Τύπος	Population-based metaheuristic / swarm intelligence	Population-based stochastic metaheuristic
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Kennedy, J. & Eberhart, R. (1995). Particle Swarm Optimization. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN), 1942-1948.	Storn, R. & Price, K. (1997). Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for Global Optimization over Continuous Spaces. Journal of Global Optimization, 11(4), 341–359.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	PSO, swarm intelligence optimization, Parçacık Sürü Optimizasyonu (PSO)	DE algorithm, Diferansiyel Evrim (DE), DE optimization
Συναφείς	6	5
Σύνοψη	Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm introduced by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1995, inspired by the collective movement of bird flocks and fish schools. Each candidate solution — called a particle — moves through the search space by updating its velocity and position based on its own best experience and the best experience of the entire swarm, enabling fast convergence across continuous optimization problems.	Differential Evolution (DE), introduced by Rainer Storn and Kenneth Price in 1997, is a population-based stochastic optimisation algorithm designed for continuous parameter spaces. It generates candidate solutions by combining vector differences between existing population members, making it a powerful and parameter-lean alternative to Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimisation when the search landscape is non-convex, multimodal, or poorly suited to gradient-based methods.