In recent years, the importance of economical considerations in the field of dam engineering has motivated many researchers to propose new methods for minimizing the cost of dames and in particular arch dams. This paper presents a method for shape optimization of double curvature arch dams corresponding to minimum construction cost while satisfying different constraints such as natural frequenc...

Aiming at industrial organization multi-objective optimization problem in Equipment Manufacturing Industry, The paper proposes a new type of double layer evolutionary cultural particle swarm optimization algorithm. The algorithm combines the advantages of the particle swarm optimization algorithm and cultural algorithm. It not only revises the problem that the particles are easy to “premature”,...

This paper presents an algorithm of particle swarm optimization with reduction for global optimization problems. Particle swarm optimization is an algorithm which refers to the collective motion such as birds or fishes, and a multi-point search algorithm which finds a best solution using multiple particles. Particle swarm optimization is so flexible that it can adapt to a number of optimization...

This paper introduces a new hybrid algorithmic nature inspired approach based on particle swarm optimization, for solving successfully one of the most popular logistics management problems, the location routing problem (LRP). The proposed algorithm for the solution of the location routing problem, the hybrid particle swarm optimization (HybPSO-LRP), combines a particle swarm optimization (PSO) ...

This paper studies the three-state series-parallel (S-P) devices network reliability redundancy allocation problem (RAP) whose different components is paralleled, and the objective function is maximized with cost and weight constraints. A new model is built. A new algorithm is constructed by using an objective function, that is, the discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm with compressio...

In order to overcome the defects of the slow convergence rate of the traditional Genetic Algorithm and basic Particle Swarm Optimization drops into local optimum easily, an improved Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm based on hybrid algorithm is proposed and applied to the signal detection for MIMO-OFDM system. The algorithm optimizes the basic Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm and some ...

This paper presents a hybrid approach for clustering based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and bacteria foraging algorithms (BFA). The new method AutoCPB (Auto-Clustering based on particle bacterial foraging) makes use of autonomous agents whose primary objective is to cluster chunks of data by using simplistic collaboration. Inspired by the advances in clustering using particle swarm opti...

This paper introduces an enhancement to the particle swarm optimization algorithms that models a characteristic of social groups: the disagreements between individuals. After a short introduction, we describe the new concept theoretically and define a special type of particle swarm optimization with disagreements: the 6σ-PSOD. Based on it, we conduct some tests proving that it can perform bette...

Using Particle Swarm Optimization to handle complex functions with high-dimension it has the problems of low convergence speed and sensitivity to local convergence. The convergence of particle swarm algorithm is studied, and the condition for the convergence of particle swarm algorithm is given. Results of numerical tests show the efficiency of the results. Base on the idea of specialization an...

Many real-world problems are dynamic, requiring an optimization algorithm which is able to continuously track a changing optimum over time. In this paper, we present new variants of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) specifically designed to work well in dynamic environments. The main idea is to extend the single population PSO and Charged Particle Swarm Optimization (CPSO) methods by constructi...