Small worlds and mega-minds: Effects of neighborhood topology on particle swarm performance

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 1931-1938

  Kennedy, James ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

NEIGHBORHOOD TOPOLOGY; PARTICLE SWARM; SMALL WORLDS; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; TEST FUNCTIONS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84899047533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.785509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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