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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…
This paper presents an algorithm based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), adapted for multi-objective optimization problems: the Elitist PSO (MO-ETPSO). The proposed algorithm integrates core strategies from the well-established NSGA-II…
The article presents a study of the Particle Swarm optimization method for scheduling problem. To improve the method's performance a restriction of particles' velocity and an evolutionary meta-optimization were realized. The approach…
Assigning tasks efficiently in cloud computing is a challenging problem and is considered an NP-hard problem. Many researchers have used metaheuristic algorithms to solve it, but these often struggle to handle dynamic workloads and explore…
Optimization is nothing but a mathematical technique which finds maxima or minima of any function of concern in some realistic region. Different optimization techniques are proposed which are competing for the best solution. Particle Swarm…
Multi-swarm particle optimisation algorithms are gaining popularity due to their ability to locate multiple optimum points concurrently. In this family of algorithms, clustering-based multi-swarm algorithms are among the most effective…
Swarm optimization algorithms are widely used for feature selection before data mining and machine learning applications. The metaheuristic nature-inspired feature selection approaches are used for single-objective optimization tasks,…
Earth Observation Satellite Planning (EOSP) is a difficult optimization problem with considerable practical interest. A set of requested observations must be scheduled on an agile Earth observation satellite while respecting constraints on…
Robot swarms can be tasked with a variety of automated sensing and inspection applications in aerial, aquatic, and surface environments. In this paper, we study a simplified two-outcome surface inspection task. We task a group of robots to…
Multi objective (MO) optimization is an emerging field which is increasingly being implemented in many industries globally. In this work, the MO optimization of the extraction process of bioactive compounds from the Gardenia Jasminoides…
Making a simple model by choosing a limited number of features with the purpose of reducing the computational complexity of the algorithms involved in classification is one of the main issues in machine learning and data mining. The aim of…
Mission schedule of satellites is an important part of space operation nowadays, since the number and types of satellites in orbit are increasing tremendously and their corresponding tasks are also becoming more and more complicated. In…
Cloud computing distributes computing tasks across numerous distributed resources for large-scale calculation. The task scheduling problem is a long-standing problem in cloud-computing services with the purpose of determining the quality,…
In order to identify the rapidly-fading, optical transient counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) sources, an efficient follow-up strategy is required. Since most ground-based optical observatories aimed at following-up GW sources have a…
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a search algorithm based on stochastic and population-based adaptive optimization. In this paper, a pathfinding strategy is proposed to improve the efficiency of path planning for a broad range of…
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is susceptible to premature convergence when the swarm collapses around the global best, particularly on multimodal landscapes in higher dimensions. We propose Divergence-guided PSO (DPSO), which augments…
Computing proposed exact $G$-optimal designs for response surface models is a difficult computation that has received incremental improvements via algorithm development in the last two-decades. These optimal designs have not been considered…
Optical Earth observation satellites acquire images worldwide , covering up to several million square kilometers every day. The complexity of scheduling acquisitions for such systems increases exponentially when considering the…
The discovery and subsequent study of optical counterparts to transient sources is crucial for their complete astrophysical understanding. Various gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors, and more notably the ground--based gravitational wave…
The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm has been recently introduced in the non--linear programming, becoming widely studied and used in a variety of applications. Starting from its original formulation, many variants for…