Three basic factors govern the individual behaviour of a particle: the inertia from its previous displacement; the attraction to its own best experience; and the attraction to a given neighbour's best experience. The importance awarded to each factor is controlled by three coefficients: the inertia; the individuality; and the sociality weights. The social behaviour is ruled by the structure of the social network, which defines the neighbours that are to inform of their experiences to a given particle. This paper presents a study of the influence of different settings of the coefficients as well as of the combined effect of different settings and different neighbourhood topologies on the speed and form of convergence.

翻译：粒子的个别行为由三个基本因素决定:先前转移的惰性;对其本身最佳经验的吸引;和对某一邻居最佳经验的吸引;对每一因素的重视受到三个系数的制约:惯性;个性;以及社会分量。社会行为由社会网络的结构决定,社会网络界定了邻里对某一粒子的体验。本文对系数不同环境的影响以及不同环境和不同邻里结构对趋同速度和形式的综合影响进行了研究。