TITLE:
Using Intelligent Computational Methods for Optimizing Niching Method
AUTHORS:
Mohsen Jahanshahi
KEYWORDS:
PSO, Niching, Genetic Algorithm, Learning Automata
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Intelligence Science,
Vol.1 No.1,
July
29,
2011
ABSTRACT: Optimization implies the minimization or maximization of an objective function. Some problems have sev-eral optimum points which all, should be computed. Niching method is presented to do so. However, its efficiency can be improved via combining it with Memetic algorithm. Therefore, in this paper, Memetic method is used to improve this method in terms of convergence rate and diversity. In the proposed methods, genetic algorithm, PSO, and learning automata are used as a local search algorithm of Memetic method. The result of simulations demonstrates that proposed methods are more effective compared with Niching in terms of convergence and diversity.