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ICIC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Sequential Niching Technique for Particle Swarm Optimization
This paper proposed a modified algorithm, sequential niching particle swarm optimization (SNPSO), for the attempt to get multiple maxima of multimodal function. Based on the sequen...
Jun Zhang, Jing-Ru Zhang, Kang Li
GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Adaptively choosing niching parameters in a PSO
Niching techniques play an important role in evolutionary algorithms. Existing niching methods often require userspecified parameters, limiting their usefulness. This paper propos...
Stefan Bird, Xiaodong Li
TEC
2010
203views more  TEC 2010»
12 years 11 months ago
Niching Without Niching Parameters: Particle Swarm Optimization Using a Ring Topology
Niching is an important technique for multimodal optimization. Most existing niching methods require specification of certain niching parameters in order to perform well. These nic...
Xiaodong Li
AMC
2007
111views more  AMC 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Locating multiple optima using particle swarm optimization
Many scientific and engineering applications require optimization methods to find more than one solution to multimodal optimization problems. This paper presents a new particle ...
R. Brits, Andries Petrus Engelbrecht, F. Van den B...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Towards scalability in niching methods
— The scaling properties of multimodal optimization methods have seldom been studied, and existing studies often concentrated on the idea that all local optima of a multimodal fu...
Marcel Kronfeld, Andreas Zell