The traditional BP neural network algorithm has some bugs such that it is easy to fall into local minimum and the slow convergence speed. Particle swarm optimization is an evolutionary computation technology based on swarm intelligence which can not guarantee global convergence. Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a global optimum algorithm with many advantages such as simple, convenient and str...

In this paper an extensive theoretical and empirical analysis of recently introduced Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm with Convergence Related parameters (CR-PSO) is presented. The convergence of the classical PSO algorithm is addressed in detail. The conditions that should be imposed on parameters of the algorithm in order for it to converge in mean-square have been derived. The practical...

In order to overcome the drawbacks of standard shuffled frog leaping algorithm that converges slowly at the last stage and easily falls into local minima, this paper proposed two-phases learning shuffled frog leaping algorithm. The modified algorithm added the elite Gaussian learning strategy in the global information exchange phase, updated frog leaping rule and added the learning capability t...

This paper presents a swarm intelligence based approach to optimally partition combinational CMOS circuits for pseudoexhaustive testing. The partitioning algorithm ensures reduction in the number of test vectors required to detect faults in VLSI circuits. The algorithm is based on the circuit’s primary input cone (N) and fanout (F) values to decide the location and number of partitions. Particl...

It is a grand challenge to model the emergence of swarm intelligence and many principles or models had been proposed. However, existing models do not catch the nature of swarm intelligence and they are not generic enough to describe various types of emergence phenomena. In this work, we propose a contradiction-centric model for emergence of swarm intelligence, in which individuals’ contradictio...

Energy consumption is currently a key issue in research for future sensor networks. This paper presents a novel approach to sensor network routing based on energy consumption. The unique routing algorithm uses swarm intelligence, which is computationally efficient.

This work details early research aimed at applying the powerful resource allocation mechanism deployed in Stochastic Diffusion Search (SDS) to the Differential Evolution (DE), effectively merging a nature inspired swarm intelligence algorithm with a biologically inspired evolutionary algorithm. The results reported herein suggest that the hybrid algorithm, exploiting information sharing between...

Nature offers us many interesting and surprising examples in which the behaviour of a group of organisms seems to have some fundamentally distinct characteristics, not shared by the individuals in that group. Different species of birds flock together, and species of fish form schools, in groups that vary in size from a handful to many millions. Meanwhile it is wellknown thatmost species of ants...

A novel particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based algorithm for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) is presented. An uncertain searching strategy and a crossover eliminated technique are used to accelerate the convergence speed. Compared with the existing algorithms for solving TSP using swarm intelligence, it has been shown that the size of the solved problems could be increased by using the pr...

Swarm Intelligence in the form of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has potential applications in electric drives. The excellent characteristics of PSO may be successfully used to optimize the performance of electric machines and electric drives in many aspects. It is estimated that, electric machines consume more than 50% of the world electric energy generated. Improving efficiency in electric...