Adewumi, Aderemi Oluyinka.Martins, Arasomwan Akugbe.2014-11-202014-11-2020132013http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11617Ph. D. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2013.Abstract available in the digital copy.en-ZASwarm intelligence.Mathematical optimization.Algorithms.Nonconvex programming.Programming (Mathematics)Theses--Computer science.Studies in particle swarm optimization technique for global optimization.Thesis