This paper investigates the use of boundary constraint handling mechanisms to prevent unwanted particle roaming behaviour in high dimensional spaces. The paper tests a range of strategies on a benchmark for large scale ...

This paper illustrates the importance of independent, component-wise stochastic scaling values, from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It is shown that a swarm employing scalar stochasticity in the particle ...

This paper illustrates the importance of independent, component-wise stochastic scaling values, from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It is shown that a swarm employing scalar stochasticity is unable to express ...

This paper’s primary aim is to provide clarity on which guarantees about particle stability can actually be made. The particle swarm optimization algorithm has undergone a considerable amount of theoretical analysis. ...

This paper presents an objective function specially designed for the convergence analysis of a number of particle swarm optimization (PSO) variants. It was found that using a specially designed objective function for ...