A novel multi-objective particle swarm optimization with -means based global best selection strategy

• Published in: International journal of computational intelligence systems Vol. 6; no. 5; p. 822
• Main Authors: Qiu, Chenye, Wang, Chunlu, Zuo, Xingquan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 01.09.2013
• Subjects: Global best; means algorithm; Multi-objective optimization; Particle swarm optimization; Symmetric mutation operator
• ISSN: 1875-6883; 1875-6891; 1875-6883
• DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2013.805584

In this paper, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm with a new global best () selection strategy is proposed for dealing with multi-objective problems. In multi-objective particle swarm optimization, plays an important role in convergence and diversity of solutions. A -means algorithm and proportional distribution based approach is used to select from the archive for each particle of the population. A symmetric mutation operator is incorporated to enhance the exploratory capabilities. The proposed approach is validated using seven popular benchmark functions. The simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm is highly competitive in terms of convergence and diversity in comparison with several state-of-the-art algorithms.