This paper presents a Swarm Intelligence based approach for sensor management of a multi sensor networks. Alternate sensor configurations and fusion strategies are evaluated by swarm agents, and an optimum configuration and fusion strategy evolves. An evolutionary algorithm, particle swarm optimization, is modified to optimize two objectives: accuracy and time. The output of the algorithm is th...

Nature-inspiredmetaheuristic algorithms have become powerful and popular in computational intelligence and many applications. There are some important developments in recent years, and this special issue aims to provide a timely review of such developments, including ant colony optimization, bat algorithm, cuckoo search, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithms, support vector machine, n...

The biologically inspired world comprising of social insect metaphor for solving out wide range of dilemma has become potentially promising area in most recent duration focusing on indirect or direct coordination’s among diverse artificial agents. Swarm [8] apparently is a disorganized collection / population of moving individual that tends to cluster together while each individual seems to be ...

PSO algorithm is an intelligent optimization algorithm based on swarm intelligence. Particle swarm optimization algorithm is simple, easy to implement, and it has a wide application prospect in scientific research and engineering applications. In real life, most of the optimization problem is the optimization problem of some nonlinear discrete with the existence of local. PSO algorithm also has...

The optimization of job-shop scheduling is very important because of its theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, a computationally effective approach of combining bacterial foraging strategy with particle swarm optimization for solving the minimum makespan problem of job shop scheduling is proposed. In the artificial bacterial foraging system, a novel chemotactic model is designe...

This paper presents the optimal controller design of buck converters. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is applied to tune the controller parameters until the best output response is achieved. The output response from the system with the controllers designed by the proposed technique is compared with those from the classical method. The transient simulations using the commercial softwar...

This paper deals with the tuning of parameters for Automatic Generation Control (AGC). A two area interconnected hydrothermal system with PI controller is considered. Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms have been applied to optimize the controller parameters. Two objective functions namely Integral Square Error (ISE) and Integral of Time-multiplied Absolute v...

This paper deals with the tuning of parameters for Automatic Generation Control (AGC). A two area interconnected hydrothermal system with PI controller is considered. Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms have been applied to optimize the controller parameters. Two objective functions namely Integral Square Error (ISE) and Integral of Time-multiplied Absolute v...

Abstract: This study proposes a novel chaotic quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (CQPSO) algorithm for solving shortterm hydrothermal scheduling problem with a set of equality and inequality constraints. In the proposed method, chaotic local search technique is employed to enhance the local search capability and convergence rate of the algorithm. In addition, a novel constraint handlin...

This paper outlines the basic concept and principles of two simple and powerful swarm intelligence tools: the particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO). The adaptive identification of an unknown plant has been formulated as an optimization problem and then solved using the PSO and BFO techniques. Using this new approach efficient identification of complex n...