Probabilistic opposition-based particle swarm optimization with velocity clamping

Autor: Naveed Kazim Khan, Farrukh Shahzad, Sohail Masood
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Knowledge and Information Systems. 39:703-737
ISSN: 0219-3116
0219-1377
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-013-0624-z
Popis: A probabilistic opposition-based Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm with Velocity Clamping and inertia weights (OvcPSO) is designed for function optimization--to accelerate the convergence speed and to optimize solution's accuracy on standard benchmark functions. In this work, probabilistic opposition-based learning for particles is incorporated with PSO to enhance the convergence rate--it uses velocity clamping and inertia weights to control the position, speed and direction of particles to avoid premature convergence. A comprehensive set of 58 complex benchmark functions including a wide range of dimensions have been used for experimental verification. It is evident from the results that OvcPSO can deal with complex optimization problems effectively and efficiently. A series of experiments have been performed to investigate the influence of population size and dimensions upon the performance of different PSO variants. It also outperforms FDR-PSO, CLPSO, FIPS, CPSO-H and GOPSO on various benchmark functions. Last but not the least, OvcPSO has also been compared with opposition-based differential evolution (ODE); it outperforms ODE on lower swarm population and higher-dimensional functions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE