This paper presents a short study on the hybridization of a swarm based optimization algorithm with a single agent based algorithm. Swarm based algorithms and single agent based algorithms have each distinct advantages and disadvantages. One goal of the presented work is to combine the concepts of the two different algorithms such that a more effective optimization routine results. In particula...

Location problem of multi-distribution center is a kind of NP hard problem. To solve such problems, this paper proposes a chaos adaptive mutation particle swarm optimization algorithm. The algorithm uses the ergodic property of chaos to initialize the particle swarm to enhance the diversity of the population, according to the variance of population fitness to adjust the probability of mutation,...

The paper focuses on a capacitated vehicle routing problem with two objectives: one is attainment of specific load factor and the other is minimization of total travel cost. Our approach is based on artificial fish swarm algorithm, a swarm-based heuristic, which mimics the foraging behaviour of a fish swarm. After initializing a school of artificial fish, whose validity is guaranteed by a desig...

In this paper, an improved hybrid algorithm combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) with backpropagation algorithm (BP) is proposed to train feedforward neural networks (FNN). PSO is a global search algorithm, but the swarm in PSO is easy to lose its diversity, which results in premature convergence. On the other hand, BP algorithm is a gradient-descent-based method which has good local sea...

this paper presents a fuzzy decision-making approach to deal with a clustering supplier problem in a supply chain system. during recent years, determining suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. however, the nature of these decisions is usually complex and unstructured. in general, many quantitative and qualitative factors, such as quality, price, and fl...

We present an algorithm that is inspired by theoretical and empirical results in social learning and swarm intelligence research. The algorithm is based on a framework that we call incremental social learning. In practical terms, the algorithm is a hybrid between a local search procedure and a particle swarm optimization algorithm with growing population size. The local search procedure provide...

This paper discusses a fully decentralized algorithm able to create an adaptive swarm of autonomous mobile robots from the viewpoint of “computational physics”. To this end, we particularly focus on “Stokesian Dynamics method”. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can control the shape of the swarm appropriately according to the current situation without losing the coherence ...

An optimum design course is being taught to undergraduate students as a basic discipline in engineering and technology education. Optimum design aims primarily at determining the best possible combination of solutions used as design parameters to maximise or minimise an optimisation problem. The development of conventional optimum approaches has dramatically influenced modern teaching technolog...

Reactive power optimization is important to ensure power quality, improve system security, and reduce active power loss. So, this paper proposed parallel immune particle swarm optimization (PIPSO) algorithm. This algorithm makes basic particle swarm optimization (BPSO) and discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) to optimize in parallel, and improves the convergence capability of particle sw...