4. Applications of the PSO algorithm
In the following, we present two case studies to illustrate our method. Some of the parameters we use for the PSO
algorithm have been adapted from previous work by other authors [23,24,20] in different contexts. For applications
of discrete PSO to the design of water supply systems, however, no references in the research literature seem to exist.
Adopting the notation of the previous sections, we will employ the following parameters to carry out our computations: