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TopClassification algorithms are usually dealt in conjunction with their application areas rather than in isolation. Only a few contributions relating to generic classification optimization are available. This section presents some of the PSO based classifiers and their utilization scenarios.
A generic classification technique using PSO as the base classifier was presented by Falco et al. in (De Falco, Della Cioppa, &Tarantino, 2007). This technique provides three different fitness functions to be used as the base for classification. It discusses the base of PSO and the operational scenario of applying PSO on a classification problem. Results obtained from using PSO on different fitness functions were compared against statistical classifiers and PSO was found to be efficient in classifying the results. PSO, being the new comer in the classification domain, contains very few contributions to its credit. A comparison between Genetic algorithm, tree induction algorithm and PSO in the area of classification was presented in (Sousa, Silva, & Neves, 2004). A major use of PSO was found in the image classification domain. One such technique that uses PSO for classifying images was presented by Omran et al. in (Brits, Engelbrecht, & Van den Bergh, 2004). Another similar image classification system was presented by Xue et al. (2014). This technique uses SVM as the base classifier and PSO as an optimizer for SVM.