Opposition based initialization in particle swarm optimization (O-PSO)
Hajira Jabeen, Zunera Jalil, Abdul Rauf Baig · 2009
Particle Swarm Optimization, a population based optimization technique has been used in wide number of application areas to solve optimization problems. This paper presents a new algorithm for initialization of population in standard PSO called Opposition based Particle Swarm Optimization (O-PSO). The performance of proposed initialization algorithm is compared with the existing PSO variants on several benchmark functions and the experimental results reveal that O-PSO outperforms existing approaches to a large extent.