New self‐organising hierarchical PSO with jumping time‐varying acceleration coefficients

Abstract

Without doubt, one of the powerful and effective optimiser in the area of evolutionary algorithms and improved particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is the self-organising hierarchical PSO with time-varying acceleration coefficients (HPSO-TVAC) which has been implemented successfully in the many problems (cited by 2430 until now). Real-world problems are multi-variable problems with real-world different complexities. The classical HPSO-TVAC optimisation technique often converges to local optima solution for some of the real-world problems. Therefore, finding efficient modern versions of the PSO algorithm (here HPSO-TVAC) to solve the real-world problems are absorbing a growing attention in recent years. A novel HPSO-TVAC algorithm for real-world optimisation is proposed. The simulation results show that proposed HPSO-TVAC new version, NHPSO-JTVAC, is powerful and very competitive for real-world optimisation.