Data clustering is considered as one of the most promising data analysis methods in data mining and on the other side KMeans is the well known partitional clustering technique. Nevertheless, K-Means and other partitional clustering techniques struggle with some challenges where dimension is the core concern. The different challenges associated with clustering techniques are preknowledge of init...

handwritten digit recognition can be categorized as a classification problem. probabilistic neural network (pnn) is one of the most effective and useful classifiers, which works based on bayesian rule. in this paper, in order to recognize persian (farsi) handwritten digit recognition, a combination of intelligent clustering method and pnn has been utilized. hoda database, which includes 80000 p...

For most practical purposes, true topology optimization of a braced frame should be synchronized with its sizing. An integrated layout optimization is formulated here to simultaneously account for both member sizing and bracings’ topology in such a problem. Code-specific seismic design spectrum is applied to unify the earthquake excitation. The problem is solved for minimal structural weight un...

Particle swarm optimization is a based-population heuristic global optimization technology and is referred to as a swarm-intelligence technique. In general, each particle is initialized randomly which increases the iteration time and makes the result unstable. In this paper an improved clustering algorithm combined with entropy-based fuzzy clustering (EFC) is presented. Firstly EFC algorithm ge...

numerous problems encountered in real life cannot be actually formulated as a single objective problem; hence the requirement of multi-objective optimization (moo) had arisen several years ago. due to the complexities in such type of problems powerful heuristic techniques were needed, which has been strongly satisfied by swarm intelligence (si) techniques. particle swarm optimization (pso) has ...

Swarm intelligence (SI) is widely used in many complex optimization problems. It is a collective behavior of social systems such as honey bees (bee algorithm, BA) and birds (particle swarm optimization, PSO). This paper presents a detailed overview of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), its variants and hybridization of PSO with Bee Algorithm (BA). This paper also surveys various SI techniques p...

Clustering is a popular data analysis and data mining technique. In this paper, a novel chaotic particle swarm fuzzy clustering (CPSFC) algorithm based on chaotic particle swarm (CPSO) and gradient method is proposed. Fuzzy clustering model optimization is challenging, in order to solve this problem, adaptive inertia weight factor (AIWF) and iterative chaotic map with infinite collapses (ICMIC)...

So far various methods for optimization presented and one of most popular of them are optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence and also one of most successful of them is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Prior some efforts by applying fuzzy logic for improving defects of PSO such as trapping in local optimums and early convergence has been done. Moreover to overcome the problem of i...

Clustering is a method which divides data objects into groups based on the information found in data that describes the objects and relationships among them. There are a variety of algorithms have been developed in recent years for solving problems of data clustering. Data clustering algorithms can be either hierarchical or partitioned. Most promising among them are K-means algorithm which is p...

The aim of this paper is to propose a new particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve a hybrid flowshop scheduling with sequence-dependent setup times problem, which is of great importance in the industrial context. This algorithm is called diversified particle swarm optimization algorithm which is a generalization of particle swarm optimization algorithm and inspired by an anarchic society ...