| Aij | the code of city which is the j-th nearest city to the i-th city |
| A[i] | the code of C cities which are nearest to the i-th city |
| C | the column number of greedy black box matrix |
| c1, c2 | acceleration coefficients |
| Dk | optimal route length at k-th Monte-Carlo simulation |
| Di | optimal route length of i-th particle |
| Mcri | critical iteration number |
| m | current number of iterations |
| N | numbers of particles |
| PC | crossover probability |
| Pgs | global optimum position |
| PM | mutation probability |
| Pis | individual optimum position |
| Q | the number of planned points |
| R | population size |
| r1, r2 | random number |
| s | the s-th dimension |
| Vi | velocity vector |
| vis | individual velocity vector |
| w | inertia weight |
| Xi | position vector |
| xis | individual position vector |
| α | information heuristic factor |
| β | expectation heuristic factor |
| ρ | pheromone evaporation ratio |