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A Particle Swarm Optimizer for the search of balanced Boolean functions with good cryptographic properties is proposed in this paper. The algorithm is a modified version of the permutation PSO by Hu, Eberhart and Shi which preserves the…
The detection and estimation of gravitational wave (GW) signals belonging to a parameterized family of waveforms requires, in general, the numerical maximization of a data-dependent function of the signal parameters. Due to noise in the…
Particle swarm optimization is a popular method for solving difficult optimization problems. There have been attempts to formulate the method in formal probabilistic or stochastic terms (e.g. bare bones particle swarm) with the aim to…
Nature has long inspired the development of swarm intelligence (SI), a key branch of artificial intelligence that models collective behaviors observed in biological systems for solving complex optimization problems. Particle swarm…
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a well-known optimization algorithm that shows good performance in solving different optimization problems. However, PSO usually suffers from slow convergence. In this article, a reinforcement…
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a meta-heuristic for continuous black-box optimization problems. In this paper we focus on the convergence of the particle swarm, i.e., the exploitation phase of the algorithm. We introduce a new…
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This article introduces an enhanced particle swarm optimizer (PSO), termed Orthogonal PSO with Mutation (OPSO-m). Initially, it proposes an orthogonal array-based learning approach to cultivate an improved initial swarm for PSO,…
Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is a powerful optimisation algorithm that can be used to locate global maxima in a search space. Recent interest in swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) begs the question as to whether PSO can be used as…
PSO is a widely recognized optimization algorithm inspired by social swarm. In this brief we present a heterogeneous strategy particle swarm optimization (HSPSO), in which a proportion of particles adopt a fully informed strategy to enhance…
Numerical optimization techniques are widely used in a broad area of science and technology, from finding the minimal energy of systems in Physics or Chemistry to finding optimal routes in logistics or optimal strategies for high speed…
This study proposes a method for estimating the mechanical parameters of vehicles and bridges and the road unevenness, using only vehicle vibration and position data. In the proposed method, vehicle input and bridge vibration are estimated…
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a widely used nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. However, when running the PSO algorithm, one encounters the phenomenon of so-called stagnation, that means in…
Offline procedures for estimating parameters of robot dynamics are practically based on the parameterized inverse dynamic model. In this paper, we present a novel approach to parameter estimation of robot dynamics which removes the…
This paper proposes the use of particle swarm optimization method (PSO) for finite element (FE) model updating. The PSO method is compared to the existing methods that use simulated annealing (SA) or genetic algorithms (GA) for FE model for…
Particle swam optimization (PSO) is a popular stochastic optimization method that has found wide applications in diverse fields. However, PSO suffers from high computational complexity and slow convergence speed. High computational…
In this paper we consider a continuous description based on stochastic differential equations of the popular particle swarm optimization (PSO) process for solving global optimization problems and derive in the large particle limit the…
In this study we address existing deficiencies in the literature on applications of Particle Swarm Optimization to generate optimal designs. We present the results of a large computer study in which we bench-mark both efficiency and…