The objective of this thesis is to investigate how to improve Particle Swarm Optimization by hybridization of stochastic search heuristics and by a Self-Organized Criticality extension. The thesis will describe two hybrid models extending Particle Swarm Optimization with two aspects from Evolutionary Algorithms, recombination via breeding and gene flow restriction via subpopulations. A further ...

The research field of swarm intelligence contains various algorithms inspired from the particular survival skills of the creatures in Mother Nature. Many researchers utilize these methods to solve problems in engineering and financial fields. In this review, the concept of four swarm intelligence methods, including Bat Algorithm (BA), Evolved Bat Algorithm (EBA), Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO), a...

The CoCoRo system will consist of several subsystems: A 'floating base station', which feeds global information (e.g., GPS) into the system, a self-aware 'ground swarm' that performs the focal task and a 'relay swarm' that bridges the communication between the these two agents. Both, the ground swarm and the relay swarm consist of AUVs able to perform 3D underwater swimming, with many on-board ...

In this paper we present and discuss the results of experimentally comparing the performance of several variants of the standard swarm particle optimiser and a new approach to swarm based optimisation. The new algorithm, which we call predator prey optimiser, combines the ideas of particle swarm optimisation with a predator prey inspired strategy, which is used to maintain diversity in the swar...

Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals that coordinate using decentralized control and self-organization. In particular, it focuses on the collective behaviors that result from the local interactions of the individuals with each other and with their environment. The characterizing property of a swarm intelligence system i...

Swarm robotics is a novel approach to the coordination of large numbers of relatively simple robots which takes its inspiration from social insects. This paper proposes a definition to this newly emerging approach by 1) describing the desirable properties of swarm robotic systems, as observed in the system-level functioning of social insects, 2) proposing a definition for the term swarm robotic...

In 1989 Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang first proposed the name ―Swarm Intelligence‖ in their paper ―Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems‖. Some remarkable observations of different researchers are studied in this paper, like the proximity principle, the quality principle, the principle of diverse response, the principle of stability, the principle of adaptability. To enhance the capabilit...

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...

Swarm-based systems have emerged as an attractive paradigm for implementing distributed autonomous systems for various applications in commercial, military and business domains. One of the major operations in a swarm-based system is to ensure that the individual swarm units process the tasks in the environment in an efficient manner. This can be achieved using a suitable task selection mechanis...

This paper based on the metaphor of specialization and cooperation in steppe tribes of the human society, tribe glowworm swarm optimization (TGSO) algorithm was presented to solve the problem of low precision and easy to fall into local optimization of the glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm. In the proposed tribe glowworm swarm optimization approach, all glowworms are divided into a ce...