Chaotic dynamic weight particle swarm optimization for numerical function optimization

Particle swarm optimization (PSO), which is inspired by social behaviors of individuals in bird swarms, is a nature-inspired and global optimization algorithm. The PSO method is easy to implement and has shown good performance for many real-world optimization tasks. However, PSO has problems with premature convergence and easy trapping into local optimum solutions. In order to overcome these deficiencies, a chaotic dynamic weight particle swarm optimization (CDW-PSO) is proposed. In the CDW-PSO algorithm, a chaotic map and dynamic weight are introduced to modify the search process. The dynamic weight is defined as a function of the fitness. The search accuracy and performance of the CDW-PSO algorithm are verified on seventeen well-known classical benchmark functions. The experimental results show that, for almost all functions, the CDW-PSO technique has superior performance compared with other nature-inspired optimizations and well-known PSO variants. Namely, the proposed algorithm of CDW-PSO has better search performance. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.