Title :
A new locally convergent particle swarm optimiser
Author :
van den Bergh, F. ; Engelbrecht, A.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pretoria Univ., South Africa
Abstract :
This paper introduces a new Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm with strong local convergence properties. The new algorithm performs much better with a smaller number of particles, compared to the original PSO. This property is desirable when designing a niching PSO algorithm.
Keywords :
convergence; optimisation; guaranteed convergence properties; local minima; particle swarm optimisation algorithm; strong local convergence properties; unimodal functions; update equation; Africa; Computer science; Convergence; Equations; Neural networks; Optimization methods; Particle swarm optimization; Stochastic processes; Tail; Vents;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2002 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7437-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1176018
