Bonus URL, on parameter tuning: http://www.hvass-labs.org/people/magnus/thesis/pedersen08thesis.pdf http://www.hvass-labs.org/people/magnus/thesis/pedersen08the

Bonus URL, on parameter tuning: http://www.hvass-labs.org/people/magnus/thesis/pedersen08thesis.pdf http://www.hvass-labs.org/people/magnus/thesis/pedersen08the... (PDF, Tuning And Simplifying Heuristical Optimization (PhD thesis)). Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization Someone may want to "cross-breed" those papers. I found Pedersen's interesting thesis via the picture he kindly contributed to that Wikipedia page (thank you; I used it for harmless, I hope, pedagogic purposes).