Cluster-Structured Particle Swarm Optimization with Interaction and Adaptation

Abstract

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is one of the most powerful methods for solving unconstrained and constrained global optimization problems. While a cluster-structured PSO with interaction and adaptation is proposed in this paper, the cluster structure, interaction and adaptation of the proposed PSO are analyzed through some numerical simulations. The feasibility and the advantage of the proposed cluster-structured PSO are demonstrated through numerical simulations using some typical global optimization test problems.