This paper proposes a TSK-type Neuro-Fuzzy system tuned with a novel learning algorithm. The proposed algorithm used an improved version of the standard Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, it employs several sub-swarms to explore the search space more efficiently. Each particle in a sub-swarm correct her position based on the best other positions, and the useful information is exchanged amon...

Particle swarm optimization is a popular method for solving difficult optimization problems. There have been attempts to formulate the method in formal probabilistic or stochastic terms (e.g. bare bones particle swarm) with the aim to achieve more generality and explain the practical behavior of the method. Here we present a Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization. This inter...

In practical situations, distribution network loads are the mixtures of residential, industrial, and commercial types. This paper presents a hybrid optimization algorithm for the optimal placement of shunt capacitor banks in radial distribution networks in the presence of different voltage-dependent load models. The algorithm is based on the combination of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Binary Part...

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for network reconfiguration associated with DG allocation to minimize real power losses in radial distribution networks. A modified Binary Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, called Selective Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (SPSO), is used to solve network reconfiguration problem. Allocation of DG units has been done by sensitivity analysis. A...

This paper proposes the use of a particle filter with embedded particle swarm optimization as an efficient and effective way of dealing with 3d model-based human body tracking. A particle swarm optimization algorithm is utilized in the particle filter to shift the particles toward more promising configurations of the human model. The algorithm is shown to be able of tracking full articulated bo...

In this paper, an effective combination of two Metaheuristic algorithms, namely Invasive Weed Optimization and the Particle Swarm Optimization, has been proposed. This hybridization called as HIWOPSO, consists of two main phases of Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Invasive weed optimization is the natureinspired algorithm which is inspired by colonial beha...

In optimizing the particle swarm optimization (PSO) that inevitable existence problem of prematurity and the local convergence, this paper base on this aspects is put forward a kind of modified particle swarm optimization algorithm, take the gradient descent method (BP algorithm) as a particle swarm operator embedded in particle swarm algorithm, and at the same time use to attenuation wall (Dam...