“…The PSO method is popular owing to its simplicity in implementation, ability to rapidly converge to a "reasonably good" solution and to "steer clear" of local minima. It has been successfully applied to wide-ranging optimisation problems, see van der Merwe and Engelbrecht [2003], Ratnaweera et al [2004], Omran [2005], Guru et al [2005], Soo et al [2007]. We apply the PSO algorithm to find the minimum of (31).…”