ANOR
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Abstract We propose a new Memetic Particle Swarm Optimization scheme that incorporates local search techniques in the standard Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, resulting in a...
AMC
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Many scientific and engineering applications require optimization methods to find more than one solution to multimodal optimization problems. This paper presents a new particle ...
AMC
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
The particle swarm optimization algorithm was showed to converge rapidly during the initial stages of a global search, but around global optimum, the search process will become ve...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— The computation of periodic orbits of nonlinear mappings is very important for studying and better understanding the dynamics of complex systems. Evolutionary algorithms have s...
DEXAW
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
— One of the central issues in Learning to Rank (L2R) for Information Retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
The process of creating e-learning contents using reusable learning objects (LOs) can be broken down in two sub-processes: LOs finding and LO sequencing. Sequencing is usually per...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
In e-learning initiatives content creators are usually required to arrange a set of learning resources in order to present them in a comprehensive way to the learner. Course mater...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
We propose a Particle Filter model that incorporates Particle Swarm Optimization for predicting systems with multiplicative noise. The proposed model employs a conventional multio...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents a variant of Quantum behaved Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO) named Q-QPSO for solving global optimization problems. The Q-QPSO algorithm is based on the cha...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
The interaction among particles is a vital aspect of Particle Swarm Optimization. As such, it has a strong influence on the swarm’s success. In this study various approaches re...