Advanced Meta-PSO

One issue in applying PSO is to find a good working set of parameters. The standard settings are often work sufficiently but don¿t exhaust the possibilities of PSO. This paper proposes an extended Meta-PSO approach to optimize the PSO parameters as well as the neighborhood topology for a given problem by PSO itself. It is applied to four typical benchmark functions known from literature. The good results indicate that PSO is capable of optimizing itself.

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