Particle swarm optimization, which is an artificial intelligence technique,
was firstly proposed by Kenedy and Eberhart (1995). There have
been different versions of particle swarm optimization in the literature.
Shi and Eberhart (1999) used time varying inertia weight and Ma et al.
(2006) used time varying acceleration coefficients in their algorithm. An
algorithmwhich uses time varying inertiaweight and a timevarying acceleration
coefficient is given below. We called this algorithm modified
particle swarm optimization. This algorithm was firstly used in Aladag
et al. (2012).