Particle Swarm Optimization and Intelligence: Advances and Applications (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis

• Publisher: Information Science Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Particle Swarm Optimization and Intelligence: Advances and Applications examines modern intelligent optimization algorithms proven as very efficient in applications from various scientific and technological fields. Providing distinguished and unique research, this innovative publication offers a compendium of leading field experiences as well as theoretical analyses and complementary techniques useful to academicians and practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Dedication......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgment......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Particle Swarm Optimization......Page 44
Theoretical Derivations and Application Issues......Page 61
Established and Recently Proposed Variants of Particle Swarm Optimization......Page 107
Performance-Enhancing Techniques......Page 152
Applications in Machine Learning......Page 168
Applications in Dynamical Systems......Page 187
Applications in Operations Research......Page 204
Applications in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics......Page 223
Applications in Noisy and Dynamic Environments......Page 241
Applications in Multiobjective, Constrained and Minimax Problems......Page 264
Afterword......Page 288
Appendix A......Page 292
Appendix B......Page 315
About the Authors......Page 322
Index......Page 324