PSO with adaptive clearing operator to promote diversity

In this paper an adaptive Clearing operator is applied to the Particle Swarm Optimization Metha-heuristic (PSO) in order to encourage diversity in the population. The goal is to determine whether the use of the Clearing operator improves levels of exploration PSO algorithm increasing diversity of th...

• Main Author: Samaniego, Eduardo (author)
• Other Authors: Guerrero, Kenya (author), Luis Tubay, José (author), Trujillo, Yaima (author), Puris, Amilkar (author), Novoa, Pavel (author)
• Format: article
• Language: eng
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: EXPLORACIóN; DIVERSIDAD; POBLACIóN METAHEURíSTICA; EXPLORATION; DIVERSITY; POPULATION METAHEURISTIC
• Online Access: https://revistas.uteq.edu.ec/index.php/cyt/article/view/189