Michal Pluhacek
Faculty of Applied informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Nam T.G. Masaryka 5555, 760 01Zlin, Czech Republic
Roman Senkerik
Faculty of Applied informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Nam T.G. Masaryka 5555, 760 01Zlin, Czech Republic
Adam Viktorin
Faculty of Applied informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Nam T.G. Masaryka 5555, 760 01Zlin, Czech Republic
Ivan Zelinka
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-TUO, 17.listopadu 15, 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba, Czech Republic
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp17142556Published in: Proceedings of The 9th EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation, EUROSIM 2016, The 57th SIMS Conference on Simulation and Modelling SIMS 2016
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 142:81, p. 556-560
Published: 2018-12-19
ISBN: 978-91-7685-399-3
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper presents a comparative study of the original single swarm PSO with linear decreasing inertia weight and basic multi-swarm variant. The alternative population topology (multi-swarms) is a topic that is getting increased attention from the research community in recent years. We present evidence that it might be very beneficial to divide the population into two subswarms with partially restricted communication. The size of the sub-swarms is chosen with respect to a previously published study on this topic. The scaling of the methods is compared in three different dimensional settings. The results are statistically evaluated and discussed. The paper concludes with proposals for future research.
