“…PSO has gained significant attention in the research area of computational intelligence because of its competitive performance, despite its simple implementation. Moreover, it has been applied to solve many real-world engineering design problems, such as power system design (AlRashidi and El-Hawary, 2009;Chen et al, 2007;del Valle et al, 2008;Neyestani et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2013), artificial neural network training (Mirjalili et al, 2012;Yaghini et al, 2013), data clustering (Kiranyaz et al, 2010;Shih, 2006;Sun et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2009), data mining (Özbakır and Delice, 2011;Sarath and Ravi, 2013;Wang et al, 2007), and parameter estimation and system identification (Liu et al, 2008;Modares et al, 2010;Sakthivel et al, 2010), as well as many other engineering problems (Alia and Mandava, 2011;Huang et al, 2009;Lin et al, 2009;Paoli et al, 2009;Sharma et al, 2009).…”