Spatial Extension PSO (SEPSO) and Attractive-Repulsive PSO (ARPSO) are methods for artificial injection of diversity into particle swarm optimizers that are intended to encourage ...
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has received increased attention in the optimization research community since its first appearance. Regarding multi-objective optimization, a con...
—The performance of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms depends strongly upon the interaction among the particles. The existing communication topologies for PSO (e.g. st...
Recent work has introduced a simulation model of ecological processes in terms of a very simple Particle Swarm algorithm. This abstract model produced qualitatively realistic beha...
Niching techniques play an important role in evolutionary algorithms. Existing niching methods often require userspecified parameters, limiting their usefulness. This paper propos...