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This paper presents a new algorithm named spherical vector-based particle swarm optimization (SPSO) to deal with the problem of path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complicated environments subjected to multiple threats. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Manh Duong Phung , Quang Phuc Ha

This paper presents a novel algorithm for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to search for an unknown source. The proposed method is inspired by the well-known PSO algorithm and is called acceleration-based particle swarm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Adithya Shankar , Harikumar Kandath , J. Senthilnath

This paper presents a particle swarm optimizer for production of endurance time excitation functions. These excitations are intensifying acceleration time histories that are used as input motions in endurance time method. The accuracy of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Mohammadreza Mashayekhi , Mojtaba Harati , Homayoon E. Estekanchi

Distributed optimization advances centralized machine learning methods by enabling parallel and decentralized learning processes over a network of computing nodes. This work provides an accelerated consensus-based distributed algorithm for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

State-of-the-art optimization is steadily shifting towards massively parallel pipelines with extremely large batch sizes. As a consequence, CPU-bound preprocessing and disk/memory/network operations have emerged as new performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Naman Agarwal , Rohan Anil , Tomer Koren , Kunal Talwar , Cyril Zhang

In this paper, we propose a stochastic search algorithm for solving general optimization problems with little structure. The algorithm iteratively finds high quality solutions by randomly sampling candidate solutions from a parameterized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Enlu Zhou , Jiaqiao Hu

Spatial Branch and Bound (B&B) algorithms are widely used for solving nonconvex problems to global optimality, yet they remain computationally expensive. Though some works have been carried out to speed up B&B via CPU parallelization, GPU…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Hongzhen Zhang , Tim Kerkenhoff , Neil Kichler , Manuel Dahmen , Alexander Mitsos , Uwe Naumann , Dominik Bongartz

In the field of global optimization, many existing algorithms face challenges posed by non-convex target functions and high computational complexity or unavailability of gradient information. These limitations, exacerbated by sensitivity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Xinyu Zhang , Sujit Ghosh

The penalization method is a popular technique to provide particle swarm optimizers with the ability to handle constraints. The downside is the need of penalization coefficients whose settings are problem-specific. While adaptive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

Natural systems often exhibit chaotic behavior in their space-time evolution. Systems transiting between chaos and order manifest a potential to compute, as shown with cellular automata and artificial neural networks. We demonstrate that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Tomáš Vantuch , Ivan Zelinka , Andrew Adamatzky , Norbert Marwan

In transportation planning and development, transport network design problem seeks to optimize specific objectives (e.g. total travel time) through choosing among a given set of projects while keeping consumption of resources (e.g. budget)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Mehran Fasihozaman Langerudi

In order to better understand and analyze the currently widely used population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithms, , this paper proposes a novel computational intelligence algorithm called bare bones grey wolf optimizer (BBGWO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Haoxin Wang , Libao Shi

We propose a variant of consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithms, controlled-CBO, which introduces a feedback control term to improve convergence towards global minimizers of non-convex functions in multiple dimensions. The feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yuyang Huang , Michael Herty , Dante Kalise , Nikolas Kantas

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Lauren Parker , James Butterworth , Shan Luo

A new global stochastic search, guided mainly through derivative-free directional information computable from the sample statistical moments of the design variables within a Monte Carlo setup, is proposed. The search is aided by imparting…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-03-10 Saikat Sarkar , Debasish Roy , Ram Mohan Vasu

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a widely studied framework for coordinating interactions in cooperative multi-agent systems. In classical DCOPs, variables owned by agents are assumed to be discrete. However, in many…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Moumita Choudhury , Amit Sarker , Md. Mosaddek Khan , William Yeoh

A large number of optimization algorithms have been developed by researchers to solve a variety of complex problems in operations management area. We present a novel optimization algorithm belonging to the class of swarm intelligence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-05 Ilario De Vincenzo , Ilaria Giannoccaro , Giuseppe Carbone

In crowded environments, individuals must navigate around other occupants to reach their destinations. Understanding and controlling traffic flows in these spaces is relevant for coordinating robot swarms and designing infrastructure for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lucy Liu , Justin Werfel , Federico Toschi , L. Mahadevan

This paper proposes a tutorial on the Data Clustering technique using the Particle Swarm Optimization approach. Following the work proposed by Merwe et al. here we present an in-deep analysis of the algorithm together with a Matlab…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Augusto Luis Ballardini