On the moments of the sampling distribution of particle swarm optimisers

  • Authors:
  • Riccardo Poli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Essex

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A method is presented that allows one to exactly determine all the characteristics of a PSO's sampling distribution and explain how it changes over time, in the presence stochasticity. The only assumption made is stagnation (particles are in search for a better personal best).