Evaporation as a Self-Adaptation Mechanism for PSO

This work extends the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for working on dynamic environments. We propose an evaporation mechanism to solve the outdated memory problem. We empirically show that our evaporation mechanism is able to achieve self-adaption without any knowledge on when changes occur.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SASO
• Authors: Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Josep Lluís Arcos
• Keywords: Evaporation Mechanism, Outdated Memory Problem, Particle Swarm Optimization, SASO 2008, Self-Organizing Systems