Relations between Population Structure and Population Diversity of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
Duan Xiao, Hong Gao, Zhang Xue · 2007
This article adopts population entropy to portray the diversity of population, and has analyzed the influence of the different topology to the population entropy through a group of standard test functions. The test result indicates that, as a result of its own characteristic, different population structure has the tremendous influence to the population diversity and search effect of the algorithm, therefore when solving different problem, we should choose different popu- lation structure according to the characteristic of the problem.