A Diversity Guided Particles Swarm Optimization
Na Li, Yuan Xiang Li · Advanced materials research · 2012
A new particle swarm optimization algorithm (a diversity guided particles swarm Optimization), which is guided by population diversity, is proposed. In order to overcome the premature convergence of the algorithm, a metric to measure the swarm diversity is designed, the update of velocity and position of particles is controlled by this criteria, and the four sub-processes are introduced in the process of updating in order to increase the swarm diversity, which enhance to the ability of particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) to break away from the local optimum. The experimental results exhibit that the new algorithm not only has great advantage of global search capability, but also can avoid the premature convergence problem effectively.