Particle Swarm Optimizer, PSO, exhibits good performance for optimization problem, although, PSO can not guarantee convergence of a global minimum, even a local minimum. However, there are some adjustable parameters and restrictive conditions which can affect performance of the algorithm. In this paper, a new adaptive PSO algorithm—Balloon PSO (BPSO) is proposed. The sufficient conditions for a...

A branch and bound-PSO hybrid algorithm for solving integer separable concave programming problems is proposed, in which the lower bound of the optimal value was determined by solving linear programming relax and the upper bound of the optimal value and the best feasible solution at present were found and renewed with particle swarm optimization (PSO). It is shown by the numerical results that ...

Network traffic flow prediction model is fundamental to the network performance evaluation and the design of network control scheme which is crucial for the success of high-speed networks. Aiming at shortcoming of the conventional network traffic time series prediction model and the problem that BP training algorithms easily plunge into local solution, a network traffic prediction model based o...

PSO is a robust and stochastic optimization technique based on the movement and the intelligence of the swarms. PSO is inspired with social behavior of bird flocking and fish schooling. PSO algorithm is applied to solve the real world complex optimization problems. So many real world optimization problems are solved by using different combinations and variations of PSO algorithms. In this paper...

The paper proposes an approach to optimize the connection weights and network structure of BP neural network (BPNN) which based on improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. For each network structure, the algorithm generates a series of particles which consist of connection weights and threshold values, and selects the best network structure according to the improved PSO algorithm. ...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with elite PSO parameters has been developed for power flow analysis under practical constrained situations. Multiple solutions of the power flow problem are useful in voltage stability assessment of power system. A method of determination of multiple power flow solutions is presented using a hybrid of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and local search techniqu...

The Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm consists of a population (or swarm) of particles that are “flown” through an n-dimensional space in search of a global best solution to an optimisation problem. PSO operates in Cartesian space, producing Cartesian solution vectors. By making use of an appropriate mapping function the algorithm can be modified to search in polar space. This mapping...

This paper presents a novel hybrid evolutionary algorithm that combines Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithms. When a local optimal solution is reached with PSO, all particles gather around it, and escaping from this local optima becomes difficult . To avoid premature convergence of PSO, we present a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm, called PSOSA, based on t...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a NP-hard and Combinatorial optimization problem. Combinatorial optimization problem can be viewed as searching for best element in a set of discrete items, which can be solved using search algorithm or meta heuristic. In this work, VRP is solved using population based search algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with crossover and mutation operators....