Title
A New Population Initialization Method Based on Space Transformation Search
Abstract
Population initialization, as an important step in population-based stochastic algorithm, can affect the convergence speed and the quality of solutions. Generally, random initialization is used to generate initial population when lacking priori information. This paper presents a new initialization method by applying space transformation search (STS) strategy to generate initial population. Experimental results on 8 well-known benchmark problems show that the population initialization based on STS outperforms traditional random initialization and opposition-based population initialization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICNC.2009.371
ICNC (5)
Keywords
Field
DocType
convergence speed,traditional random initialization,new initialization method,new population initialization method,opposition-based population initialization,population-based stochastic algorithm,population initialization,space transformation search,important step,random initialization,initial population,optimization,particle swarm optimization,benchmark testing,random processes,opposition,convergence,data mining,evolutionary computation,probability density function,stochastic processes,initial value problems
Convergence (routing),Particle swarm optimization,Population,Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Evolutionary computation,Stochastic process,Artificial intelligence,Initialization,Probability density function,Machine learning,Benchmark (computing)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.55
10
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Wang127717.29
Zhijian Wu231321.20
Jing Wang332939.05
Xiaojian Dong4140.90
Yu Song535652.74
Cheng Chen6120.55