Metaheuristicas

Trecho de um post sobre Metaheuristicas:

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic (also called global optimization algorithm), for dealing with problems in which a best solution can be represented as a point or surface in an n-dimensional space. Other famous metaheuristics:

• Simulated annealing, generalization of Monte Carlo method
• Cross-entropy method another generalization of Monte Carlo method
• Genetic algorithm
• Tabu search
• Ant colony organization

PSO is one of the best to find best solution of continuous functions (for example tabu search is better to find best solution of discrete functions).