Binary Particle Swarm Optimization with Bit Change Mutation

Sangwook LEE
Haesun PARK
Moongu JEON

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E90-A    No.10    pp.2253-2256
Publication Date: 2007/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.10.2253
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)
Category: Optimization
Keyword: 
binary particle swarm optimization,  bit change mutation,  

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Summary: 
Particle swarm optimization (PSO), inspired by social psychology principles and evolutionary computations, has been successfully applied to a wide range of continuous optimization problems. However, research on discrete problems has been done not much even though discrete binary version of PSO (BPSO) was introduced by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1997. In this paper, we propose a modified BPSO algorithm, which escapes from a local optimum by employing a bit change mutation. The proposed algorithm was tested on De jong's suite and its results show that BPSO with the proposed mutation outperforms the original BPSO.


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