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Problem difficulty analysis for particle swarm optimization: Deception and modality

  • Bin Xin*
  • , Jie Chen
  • , Feng Pan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper studies the problem difficulty for a popular optimization method - particle swarm optimization (PSO), particularly for the PSO variant PSO-cf (PSO with constriction factor), and analyzes its predictive measures. Some previous measures and related issues about other optimizers, mainly including deception and modality, are checked for PSO. It is observed that deception is mainly the combination of three factors - the measure ratios of attraction basins, the relative distance of attractors and the relative difference of attractors' altitudes. Multimodality and multi-funnel are proved not to be the essential factors contributing to the problem difficulty for PSO. The counterexamples and comparative experiments in this paper can be taken as a reference for further researches on novel comprehensive predictive measures of problem difficulty for PSO.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2009 GEC Summit - Proceedings of the 1st ACM/SIGEVO Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GEC'09
Pages623-630
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2009 GEC Summit - 1st ACM/SIGEVO Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GEC'09 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 12 Jun 200914 Jun 2009

Publication series

Name2009 World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2009 GEC Summit - Proceedings of the 1st ACM/SIGEVO Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GEC'09

Conference

Conference2009 World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2009 GEC Summit - 1st ACM/SIGEVO Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GEC'09
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period12/06/0914/06/09

Keywords

  • Global optimization
  • Particle swarm optimization
  • Problem hardness

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