The Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem (PTSP) is a variation of the well known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). This problem arises when the information about customers demand is not available at the moment of the tour generation and/or the tour re-calculating cost is too elevated. In this article, a Hybrid Algorithm combining Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Simulated Annealing (SA...

This paper presents a hybrid unsupervised clustering algorithm, referred to as the Rough Fuzzy C-Means (RFCM) algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The PSO algorithm features high quality of searching in the nearoptimum. At the same time, in RFCM, the concept of lower and upper approximation can deal with uncertainty, vagueness and indiscernibility in cluster relations while the memb...

Generally, the mechanical devices come with undesirable nonlinearities. Due to these nonlinearities the frequency domain system identification process in servo system seems to be a tough task. In the paper, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm based hybrid technique is proposed for the frequency domain identification of servo system. The proposed hybrid technique is the combination of ar...

This article presents a new technique to detect a premature atrial contraction (PAC). The technique employs a hybrid of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and fuzzy inference system (FIS), and is called PSO-FIS. In the detection electrocardiographic features are used for the inputs of PSO-FIS. In PSO-FIS, a PSO is used to find the optimal parameters of the FIS. A Gaussian function is employed fo...

In order to effectively solve combinatorial optimization problems, the Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) combine to form a new ED-PSO hybrid algorithm, the algorithm can effectively apply global statistical information and global optimal solution to the solution space search. This algorithm is used to solve the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem (MK...

in this paper, we have proposed a new algorithm which combines pso and ga in such a way that the new algorithm is more effective and efficient.the particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm has shown rapid convergence during the initial stages of a global search but around global optimum, the search process will become very slow. on the other hand, genetic algorithm is very sensitive to the in...

A hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm which includes two alternative gradient-based methods for handling constraints has been proposed to solve process synthesis and design problems which involve continuous and binary variables and equality and inequality constraints (a mixed integer non-linear programming problem, MINLP). The first method for handling constraints uses the Newton-Raphs...

This paper presents a hybrid filter–wrapper feature subset selection algorithm based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) for support vector machine (SVM) classification. The filter model is based on the mutual information and is a composite measure of feature relevance and redundancy with respect to the feature subset selected. The wrapper model is a modified discrete PSO algorithm. This hybri...

Accurate and timely weather forecasting is a major challenge for the scientific community in hydrological research such as river training works and design of flood warning systems. Neural Network (NN) is a popular regression method in rainfall predictive modeling. This paper investigates the effectiveness of the hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) evolved neural ...

J. Kennedy and R. Eberhart first introduced the concept called as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). They applied it to optimize continuous nonlinear functions and demonstrated the effectiveness of the algorithm. Since then a considerable number of researchers have attempted to apply this concept to a variety of optimization problems and obtained reasonable results. In PSO, individuals communic...