A comprehensive survey on particle swarm optimization algorithm and its applications

Y Zhang, S Wang, G Ji - Mathematical problems in engineering, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a heuristic global optimization method, proposed
originally by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1995. It is now one of the most commonly used …

Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence methods, and their applications in water resources engineering: a state-of-the-art review

M Janga Reddy, D Nagesh Kumar - h2oj, 2020 - iwaponline.com
During the last three decades, the water resources engineering field has received a
tremendous increase in the development and use of meta-heuristic algorithms like …

A hybrid multi-objective optimization approach for energy-absorbing structures in train collisions

H Zhang, Y Peng, L Hou, G Tian, Z Li - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy-absorbing structure, which is the most effective and direct protection component, is
installed at the front of the head car. However, structural optimization problems of this …

A comparative study of the improvement of performance using a PSO modified by ACO applied to TSP

W Elloumi, H El Abed, A Abraham, AM Alimi - Applied Soft Computing, 2014 - Elsevier
Swarm-inspired optimization has become very popular in recent years. Particle swarm
optimization (PSO) and Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have attracted the interest …

Multi-objective Ant Colony Optimization

MA Awadallah, SN Makhadmeh, MA Al-Betar… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is one of the most popular swarm-based algorithms
inspired by the behavior of an ant colony to find the shortest path for food. The multi …

[PDF][PDF] Research on the evaluation of the resilience of subway station projects to waterlogging disasters based on the projection pursuit model

L Liu, H Wu, J Wang, T Yang - Mathematical biosciences and …, 2020 - aimspress.com
To improve sustainable development, increasingly more attention has been paid to the
evaluation of the resilience to waterlogging disasters. This paper proposed a projection …

Machine learning-based optimization design of bistable curved shell structures with variable thickness

J Liu, J Chang, J Yu, W Zhang, S Huang - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanical performance of curved shell structures is difficult to predict due to their
complex geometric nonlinearity. There have been many efforts to improve the mechanical …

Novel associative classifier based on dynamic adaptive PSO: Application to determining candidates for thoracic surgery

V Mangat, R Vig - Expert Systems with Applications, 2014 - Elsevier
Association rule mining is a data mining technique for discovering useful and novel patterns
or relationships from databases. These rules are simple to infer and intuitive and can be …

Genesis of basic and multi-layer echo state network recurrent autoencoders for efficient data representations

N Chouikhi, B Ammar, AM Alimi - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08996, 2018 - arxiv.org
It is a widely accepted fact that data representations intervene noticeably in machine
learning tools. The more they are well defined the better the performance results are …

A firefly colony and its fuzzy approach for server consolidation and virtual machine placement in cloud datacenters

B Perumal, A Murugaiyan - Advances in Fuzzy Systems, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Managing cloud datacenters is the most prevailing challenging task ahead for the IT
industries. The data centers are considered to be the main source for resource provisioning …