scholarly journals A Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali R. Guner ◽  
Mehmet Sevkli
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Facility Location ◽  
Location Problem ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Facility Location Problem ◽  
Discrete Version ◽  
Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Better Than

A discrete version of particle swarm optimization (DPSO) is employed to solve uncapacitated facility location (UFL) problem which is one of the most widely studied in combinatorial optimization. In addition, a hybrid version with a local search is defined to get more efficient results. The results are compared with a continuous particle swarm optimization (CPSO) algorithm and two other metaheuristics studies, namely, genetic algorithm (GA) and evolutionary simulated annealing (ESA). To make a reasonable comparison, we applied to same benchmark suites that are collected from OR-library. In conclusion, the results showed that DPSO algorithm is slightly better than CPSO algorithm and competitive with GA and ESA.

ANALYSIS OF MUTATION OPERATORS ON QUANTUM-BEHAVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM

2009 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 487-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEI FANG ◽  
JUN SUN ◽  
WENBO XU
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Novel Mutation ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Pso Algorithm ◽  
Mutation Operator ◽  
Fundamental Theory ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Mutation Operators ◽  
Better Than

Mutation operator is one of the mechanisms of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and it can provide diversity in the search and help to explore the undiscovered search place. Quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO), which is inspired by fundamental theory of PSO algorithm and quantum mechanics, is a novel stochastic searching technique and it may encounter local minima problem when solving multi-modal problems just as that in PSO. A novel mutation mechanism is proposed in this paper to enhance the global search ability of QPSO and a set of different mutation operators is introduced and implemented on the QPSO. Experiments are conducted on several well-known benchmark functions. Experimental results show that QPSO with some of the mutation operators is proven to be statistically significant better than the original QPSO.

scholarly journals Intelligent discrete particle swarm optimization for multiprocessor task scheduling problem

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Sarathambekai ◽  
K Umamaheswari
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Initial Population ◽  
Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Discrete Particle

Discrete particle swarm optimization is one of the most recently developed population-based meta-heuristic optimization algorithm in swarm intelligence that can be used in any discrete optimization problems. This article presents a discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm to efficiently schedule the tasks in the heterogeneous multiprocessor systems. All the optimization algorithms share a common algorithmic step, namely population initialization. It plays a significant role because it can affect the convergence speed and also the quality of the final solution. The random initialization is the most commonly used method in majority of the evolutionary algorithms to generate solutions in the initial population. The initial good quality solutions can facilitate the algorithm to locate the optimal solution or else it may prevent the algorithm from finding the optimal solution. Intelligence should be incorporated to generate the initial population in order to avoid the premature convergence. This article presents a discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm, which incorporates opposition-based technique to generate initial population and greedy algorithm to balance the load of the processors. Make span, flow time, and reliability cost are three different measures used to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm for scheduling independent tasks in distributed systems. Computational simulations are done based on a set of benchmark instances to assess the performance of the proposed algorithm.

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