Initializing the Particle Swarm Optimizer Using the Nonlinear Simplex Method
Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos · 2002
Abstract:- Initialization of the population in Evolutionary Computation algorithms is an issue of ongoing research. Proper initialization may help the algorithm to explore the search space more efficiently and detect better solutions. In this paper, the Nonlinear Simplex Method is used to initialize the swarm of the Particle Swarm technique. Experiments for several well-known benchmark problems imply that better convergence rates and success rates can be achieved by initializing the swarm this way.