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This work contributes to efforts on autonomously detecting a vegetation-occluded target by airborne observers. It investigates and enhances previous work on a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) strategy for Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Julia Pöschl

Traditional methods present a very restrictive range of applications, mainly limited by the features of the function to be optimized and of the constraint functions. In contrast, evolutionary algorithms present almost no restriction to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a popular nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. Although this technique is widely used, the understanding of the mechanisms that make swarms so successful is still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Vanessa Lange , Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Silvano Chiaradonna , Felicita Di Giandomenico , Nadir Murru

Most of the research on Federated Learning (FL) has focused on analyzing global optimization, privacy, and communication, with limited attention focusing on analyzing the critical matter of performing efficient local training and inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Basheer Qolomany , Kashif Ahmad , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Junaid Qadir

Particle swarm optimization comes under lot of changes after James Kennedy and Russell Eberhart first proposes the idea in 1995. The changes has been done mainly on Inertia parameters in velocity updating equation so that the convergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Rajesh Misra , Kumar S. Ray

This paper proposes the application of particle swarm optimization (PSO) to the problem of finite element model (FEM) selection. This problem arises when a choice of the best model for a system has to be made from set of competing models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Linda Mthembu , Tshilidzi Marwala , Michael I. Friswell , Sondipon Adhikari

This paper preliminarily investigates the duality between flow matching in generative models and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in evolutionary computation. Through theoretical analysis, we reveal the intrinsic connections between these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaichen Ouyang

Compared to other techniques, particle swarm optimization is more frequently utilized because of its ease of use and low variability. However, it is complicated to find the best possible solution in the search space in large-scale…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hamed Zibaei , Mohammad Saadi Mesgari

Many real-world problems are dynamic optimization problems. In this case, the optima in the environment change dynamically. Therefore, traditional optimization algorithms disable to track and find optima. In this paper, a new multi-swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Somayeh Nabizadeh , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammd Reza Meybodi

In this work, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has been used to train various Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs). This approach is motivated by the fact that commonly used gradient-based optimization methods can suffer from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Marco Mordacci , Michele Amoretti

We present a fast and accurate method to select an optimal set of parameters in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and evolution (SAMs). Our approach compares the results of a model against a set of observables applying a stochastic…

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a widely studied constraint handling framework. The objective of a DCOP algorithm is to optimize a global objective function that can be described as the aggregation of a number of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Moumita Choudhury , Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-06 Muhammad Saqib Sohail , Muhammad Omer Bin Saeed , Syed Zeeshan Rizvi , Mobien Shoaib , Asrar Ul Haq Sheikh

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tshilidzi Marwala

In this paper, the uplink direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) multiuser detection problem (MuD) is studied into heuristic perspective, named particle swarm optimization (PSO). Regarding different system improvements for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Taufik Abrão , Leonardo D. Oliveira , Bruno A. Angelico , Paul Jean E. Jeszensky

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , P. N. Suganthan

Solving non-convex minimization problems using multi-particle metaheuristic derivative-free optimization methods is still an active area of research. Popular methods are Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods, that iteratively update a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Michael Herty , Sara Veneruso

Data clustering is a recognized data analysis method in data mining whereas K-Means is the well known partitional clustering method, possessing pleasant features. We observed that, K-Means and other partitional clustering techniques suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Jayshree Ghorpade-Aher , Vishakha A. Metre

A series of modified cognitive-only particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms effectively mitigate premature convergence by constructing distinct vectors for different particles. However, the underutilization of these constructed vectors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhenxing Zhang , Tianxian Zhang , Xiangliang Xu