A performance study on synchronicity and neighborhood size in particle swarm optimization

Soft Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1019-1030

  Rada Vilela, Juan ^a   Zhang, Mengjie ^a   Seah, Winston ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Asynchronous PSO; Large scale optimization; Particle swarm optimization; Random asynchronous PSO

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS PSO; BENCHMARK FUNCTIONS; LARGE NEIGHBORHOOD; LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; NEIGHBORHOOD SIZE; PERFORMANCE STUDY; RANDOM ASYNCHRONOUS PSO;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 84877738924     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-013-1015-9     Document Type: Article

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