Hybrid particle swarm optimisation with adaptively coordinated local searches for multimodal optimisation
by Gang Xu; Hao Liu
International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (IJCSM), Vol. 6, No. 3, 2015

Abstract: Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is a population-based stochastic search algorithm. Two common criticisms exist. First, PSO suffers premature convergence. Second, several existing PSO variants are designed for a specific search space thus an algorithm performing well on a diverse set of problems is lacking. In this paper, we propose a hybrid particle swarm optimisation with adaptively coordinated local searches, called NMRM-PSO, to make up the above demerits. These local search algorithms are the Nelder mead algorithm and the Rosenbrock method. NMRM-PSO has two alternative phases: the exploration phase realised by PSO and the exploitation phase completed by two adaptively coordinated local searches. Experiment results show that NMRM-PSO outperforms all of the tested PSO algorithms on most of multimodal functions in terms of solution quality, convergence speed and success rate.

Online publication date: Mon, 08-Jun-2015

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