Evolutionary algorithm and Swarm Intelligence algorithm (EA, SI), a part of Bio inspired optimization algorithm, have been widely used to solve numerous optimization problem in various science and engineering domains. This paper proposes a Multi Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization (MS-PSO) algorithm inspired by the animal collective behavior, the movement of the swarm and the intelligence of the ...

PSO algorithm is an intelligent optimization algorithm based on swarm intelligence. Particle swarm optimization algorithm is simple, easy to implement, and it has a wide application prospect in scientific research and engineering applications. In real life, most of the optimization problem is the optimization problem of some nonlinear discrete with the existence of local. PSO algorithm also has...

in this paper, a new enhanced version of the particle swarm optimization (pso) is presented. an important modification is made by adding probabilistic functions into pso, and it is named probabilistic particle swarm optimization (ppso). since the variation of the velocity of particles in pso constitutes its search engine, it should provide two phases of optimization process which are: explorati...

Formation of effective teams of experts has played a crucial role in successful projects especially in social networks. In this paper, a new particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed for solving a team formation optimization problem by minimizing the communication cost among experts. The proposed algorithm is called by improved particle optimization with new swap operator (IPSONSO...

A number of algorithms based on the evolutionary processing have been proposed forcommunication networks backbone such as Genetic Algorithm (GA). However, there has beenlittle work on the SWARM optimization algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) for backbone topology design. In this paper, the performance of PSO on GA isdiscussed and a new algorithm as PSOGA is proposed for the net...

A new promising strategy for the PSO (Particle swarm optimization) algorithm is proposed and described in this paper. This new strategy presents alternative way of assigning new velocity to each individual in particle swarm (population). This new multiple choice particle swarm optimization (MC-PSO) algorithm is tested on two different shifted test functions to show the performance on problems t...

A novel orthogonal multi-swarm cooperative particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with a particle trajectory knowledge base is presented in this paper. Different from the traditional PSO algorithms and other variants of PSO, the proposed orthogonal multi-swarm cooperative PSO algorithm not only introduces an orthogonal initialization mechanism and a particle trajectory knowledge base for m...

Swarm intelligence (SI) is widely used in many complex optimization problems. It is a collective behavior of social systems such as honey bees (bee algorithm, BA) and birds (particle swarm optimization, PSO). This paper presents a detailed overview of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), its variants and hybridization of PSO with Bee Algorithm (BA). This paper also surveys various SI techniques p...

In the paper a modified particle swarm optimization (MPSO) is proposed where concepts from firefly algorithm (FA) are borrowed to enhance the performance of particle swarm optimization (PSO). The modifications focus on the velocity vectors of the PSO, which fully use beneficial information of the position of particles and increase randomization item in the PSO. Finally, the performance of the p...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is a kind of random optimization algorithm based on swarm intelligence. Swarm intelligence of PSO is produced by cooperation and competition between particles, which is used for guiding optimization search. PSO has been studied widely in many applications due to its good global searching ability. Currently PSO has been widely used in function optimiza...