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Zbl 1114.65334
Shelokar, P.S.; Siarry, Patrick; Jayaraman, V.K.; Kulkarni, B.D.
Particle swarm and ant colony algorithms hybridized for improved continuous optimization. (English)
[J] Appl. Math. Comput. 188, No. 1, 129-142 (2007). ISSN 0096-3003

Summary: This paper proposes PSACO (particle swarm ant colony optimization) algorithm for highly non-convex optimization problems. Both particle swarm optimization (PSO) and ant colony optimization (ACO) are co-operative, population-based global search swarm intelligence metaheuristics. PSO is inspired by social behavior of bird flocking or fish schooling, while ACO imitates foraging behavior of real life ants. In this study, we explore a simple pheromone-guided mechanism to improve the performance of PSO method for optimization of multimodal continuous functions. The proposed PSACO algorithm is tested on several benchmark functions from the usual literature. Numerical results comparisons with different metaheuristics demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed PSACO method.

MSC 2000:: *65K05 Mathematical programming (numerical methods)
90C15 Stochastic programming
90C59 Approximation methods and heuristics

Keywords: particle swarm optimization; ant colony; metaheuristics; global optimization; multimodal continuous functions; non-convex optimization; numerical results

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