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...

This paper presents a particle swarm ant colony optimization for design of truss structures. The algorithm is based on the particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation and ant colony optimization. The particle swarm ant colony optimization applies the particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation for global optimization and ant colony approach is employed to update positions of parti...

Electric power line overhaul plan is an important issue on power system and engineering practice. As particle swarm optimization is to be a new intelligent algorithm. It is gradually applied into power system these years. This paper provides a relative mathematical model to solve the problems in power line overhaul. Particle swarm optimization algorithm has advantages of less parameters setting...

Global optimization methods play an important role to solve many real-world problems. Flower pollination algorithm (FP) is a new nature-inspired algorithm, based on the characteristics of flowering plants. In this paper, a new hybrid optimization method called hybrid flower pollination algorithm (FPPSO) is proposed. The method combines the standard flower pollination algorithm (FP) with the par...

Presented a new hybrid particle swarm algorithm based on P systems, through analyzing the working principle and improved strategy of the elementary particle swarm algorithm. Used the particles algorithm combined with the membrane to form a community, particles use wheel-type structure to communicate the current best particle within the community. The best particles, as Representative, compete f...

This paper develops an efficient and clear insight view about the application of various PSO algorithms to the economic load dispatch problem with emission restrictions as the constraint. Solution acceleration techniques in the algorithm which enhance the speed and robustness of the algorithm are developed. The power and usefulness of the algorithm is demonstrated through its application to a t...

In this paper, a new particle swarm optimization method has been proposed. In the proposed approach a novel philosophy of modifying the velocity update equation of Standard Particle Swarm Optimization approach has been used. The modification has been done by vanishing the gbest term in the velocity update equation of SPSO. The performance of the proposed algorithm (Personal Best Position Partic...

This paper presents two new Particle swarm optimization methods to solve optimal power flow (OPF) in power system incorporating flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS). Two types of FACTS devices, thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC) and thyristor controlled phase shifting (TCPS), are considered. In this paper, the problems of OPF with FACTS are solved by using particle swarm optimizat...

This paper assumes each user has more than one queue, derives a new packet dependent proportional fairness power allocation pattern based on the sum of weight capacity and the packet’s priority in users’ queues, and proposes 4 new schemes of cross-layer packet dependent OFDM scheduling for heterogeneous classes of traffic based on proportional fairness. Scenario 1, scenario 2 and scenario 3 lea...