Title
Particle Swarm Optimization with a Novel Multi-Parent Crossover Operator
Abstract
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) shares many similarities with evolutionary algorithms (EAs), while the standard PSO does not use any evolution operators such as crossover and mutation. This paper presents a hybrid PSO algorithm to inherit some excellent characteristics of advanced evolutionary computation techniques. The proposed method employs a novel multi-parent crossover operator and a self-adaptive Cauchy mutation operator to help escape from local optima. Experimental results on a suit of well-known benchmark functions with many local minima have shown that the proposed method could successfully deal with those difficult multimodal optimization problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ICNC.2008.643
ICNC
Keywords
Field
DocType
particle swarm optimization,self-adaptive cauchy mutation operator,evolution operator,local optimum,advanced evolutionary computation technique,evolutionary algorithm,hybrid pso algorithm,novel multi-parent crossover operator,standard pso,local minimum,evolutionary computing,optimization,local minima,optimization problem,evolutionary computation,benchmark testing,convergence,evolutionary algorithms,mathematical model
Particle swarm optimization,Mathematical optimization,Crossover,Evolutionary algorithm,Local optimum,Computer science,Evolutionary computation,Multi-swarm optimization,Artificial intelligence,Optimization problem,Genetic algorithm,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.48
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Wang138627.33
Zhijian Wu231321.20
Yong Liu32526265.08
Sanyou Zeng439442.60