Vehicle routing problem is a NP hard problem. To solve the premature convergence problem of the particle swarm optimization, an improved particle swarm optimization method was proposed. In the first place, introducing the neighborhood topology, defining two new concepts lepton and hadron. Lepton are particles within the scope of neighborhood, which have weak interaction between each other, so t...

Localization is a key technology in wireless sensor networks. Faced with the challenges of the sensors' memory, computational constraints, and limited energy, particle swarm optimization has been widely applied in the localization of wireless sensor networks, demonstrating better performance than other optimization methods. In particle swarm optimization-based localization algorithms, the varia...

The increased nature of email spam with the use of urge mailing tools prompt the need for detector generation to counter the menace of unsolocited email. Detector generation inspired by the human immune system implements particle swarm optimization (PSO) to generate detector in negative selection algorithm (NSA). Outlier detectors are unique features generated by local outlier factor (LOF). The...

Cellular manufacturing system, an application of group technology, has been considered as an effective method to obtain productivity in a factory. For design of manufacturing cells, several mathematical models and various algorithms have been proposed in literature. In the present research, we propose an improved version of discrete particle swarm optimization (PSO) to solve manufacturing cell ...

This survey focuses on the problem of parameters selection in image edge detection by ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm. By introducing particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize parameters in ACO algorithm, the fitness function based on connectivity of image edge is proposed to evaluate the quality of parameters in ACO algorithm. And the ACO-PSO algorithm is applied to image...

In this paper, a new algorithm which is the result of the combination of cellular learning automata and frog leap algorithm (SFLA) is proposed for optimization in continuous, static environments.At the proposed algorithm, each memeplex of frogs is placed in a cell of cellular learning automata. Learning automata in each cell acts as the brain of memeplex, and will determine the strategy of moti...

Partner selection is a critical issue in the research of virtual enterprise. It is usually a combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, an improved discrete particle swarm algorithm is proposed for the partner selection optimization. At first, an optimization model is presented, which includes the main crucial factors for partner selection, such as running cost, reaction time and failur...

There are different variants of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm such as Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) and Particle Swarm Optimization with an Aging Leader and Challengers (ALC-PSO). These algorithms improve the performance of PSO in terms of finding the best solution and accelerating the convergence speed. However, these algorithms are computationally intensive. The go...

This study presents a new evolutionary learning algorithm to optimize the parameters of the neural fuzzy classifier (NFC). This new evolutionary learning algorithm is based on a hybrid of bacterial foraging optimization and particle swarm optimization. It is thus called bacterial foraging particle swarm optimization (BFPSO). The proposed BFPSO method performs local search through the chemotacti...