Study of a New Global Optimization Algorithm Based on the Standard PSO.

In this paper, a new global optimization algorithm is developed, which is named Particle Swarm Optimization combined with Particle Generator (PSO-PG). Based on a series of comparable numerical experiments, we show that the calculation accuracy of the new algorithm is greatly improved and optimization efficiency is increased as well, in comparison with those of the standard PSO. It is also found that the optimization results obtained from PSO-PG are almost independent of the coefficients adopted in the algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]