An efficient method for size and layout optimization of the truss structures is presented in this paper. In order to this, an efficient method by combining an improved discrete particle swarm optimization (IDPSO) and method of moving asymptotes (MMA) is proposed. In the hybrid of IDPSO and MMA, the nodal coordinates defining the layout of the structure are optimized with MMA, and afterwards the...

Blind source separation technique separates mixed signals blindly without any information on the mixing system. In this paper, we have used two evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization for blind source separation. In these techniques a novel fitness function that is based on the mutual information and high order statistics is proposed. In order to evalu...

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...

Blind source separation technique separates mixed signals blindly without any information on the mixing system. In this paper, we have used two evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization for blind source separation. In these techniques a novel fitness function that is based on the mutual information and high order statistics is proposed. In order to evalu...

cellular manufacturing system is one of the most important applications of group technology. design of this system involves many structural and operational issues, in which the cell formation and production planning are two important steps. in this paper, a new mathematical model is proposed for integration of cell formation and production planning problems with the aim of minimizing the overal...

Optimisation-based methods are enormously used in the field of data classification. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic algorithm based on swarm intelligence, widely to solve global optimisation problems throughout real world. The main problem PSO faces premature convergence due lack diversity, and it usually stuck local minima when dealing with complex real-world problems. In ...

This paper deals with the problem of unconstrained optimization. An improved probability particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed. Firstly, two normal distributions are used to describe the distributions of particle positions, respectively. One is the normal distribution with the global best position as mean value and the difference between the current fitness and the global best fitne...

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...

Based on the life cycle cost (LCC) approach, this paper presents an integral mathematical model and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for the heating system planning (HSP) problem. The proposed mathematical model minimizes the cost of heating system as the objective for a given life cycle time. For the particularity of HSP problem, the general particle swarm optimization algorithm was...