Solving fuzzy p-hub center problem by genetic algorithm incorporating local search

The p-hub center problem has extensive applications in various real-world fields such as transportation and telecommunication systems. This paper presents a new risk aversion p-hub center problem with fuzzy travel times, in which value-at-risk (VaR) criterion is adopted in the formulation of objection function. For trapezoidal and normal fuzzy travel times, we first turn the original VaR p-hub center problem into its equivalent parametric mixed-integer programming problem, then develop a hybrid algorithm by incorporating genetic algorithm and local search (GALS) to solve the parametric mixed-integer programming problem. In our designed GALS, the GA is used to perform global search, while LS strategy is applied to each generated individual (or chromosome) of the population. Finally, we conduct two sets of numerical experiments and discuss the experimental results obtained by general-purpose LINGO solver, standard GA and GALS. The computational results show that the GALS achieves the better performance than LINGO solver and standard GA.     

A case study of scheduling storage tanks using a hybrid geneticalgorithm

This paper proposes the application of a hybrid genetic algorithm (GA) for scheduling storage tanks. The proposed approach integrates GAs and heuristic rule-based techniques, decomposing the complex mixed-integer optimization problem into integer and real-number subproblems. The GA string considers the integer problem and the heuristic approach solves the real-number problems within the GA framework. The algorithm is demonstrated for three test scenarios of a water treatment facility at a port and has been found to be robust and to give a significantly better schedule than those generated using a random search and a heuristic-based approach     

基于混合粒子群优化算法的旅行商问题求解

针对旅行商问题提出一种混合粒子群优化算法。为了增强算法的局部搜索能力,在粒子群优化算法中加入倒置、对换等局部搜索算法。利用遗传算法全局搜索能力强的特点对用粒子群优化算法求到的解进行优化,对全局最优路径通过消除交叉路径进行优化,以进一步提高混合算法的性能。仿真结果表明,中小规模旅行商问题能够在较少的代数内收敛到较满意解。     

基于领域建模的数控系统代码自动生成方法

针对传统数控系统开发方法存在的问题,提出基于领域建模的数控系统开发方法,将领域元模型设计、模型转换、代码自动生成作为主要研究对象,介绍数控系统元模型的基于多视角的构建过程,分析数控系统代码自动生成的原理及步骤,阐述基于映射规则库及代码模板库的模型映射过程。通过三轴数控车床的设计实例,证实该方案的可行性及有效性。     

基于PSO信息传递模式的混合算法

粒子群优化算法（Particle Swarm Optimization,PSO）是一种基于群智能（Swarm Intelligence）的随机优化计算技术。PSO和遗传算法这两种算法相比较,PSO收敛快速准确,但编码形式单一,局限于解决实优化问题,而遗传算法编码形式灵活,解决问题广泛,但执行效率低于PS00。将粒子群算法的信息传递模式与遗传算法的编码和遗传操作相结合,提出一种混合算法。并推导了两个算法之间的密切联系。并通过组合优化和函数优化的基准测试集对算法进行测试,试验结果表明,该算法在收敛精度和速度优于传统遗传算法。同时,也观察到该算法取得了与粒子群算法一致的收敛现象。     

Fuzzy programming for mixed-integer optimization problems

Mixed-integer optimization problems belong to the group of NP-hard combinatorial problems. Therefore, they are difficult to search for global optimal solutions. Mixed-integer optimization problems are always described by precise mathematical programming models. However, many practical mixed-integer optimization problems have inherited a more or less imprecise nature. Under these circumstances, if we take into account the flexibility of the constraints and the fuzziness of the objectives, the original mixed-integer optimization problems can be formulated as fuzzy mixed-integer optimization problems. Mixed-integer hybrid differential evolution (MIHDE) is an evolutionary search algorithm which has been successfully applied to many complex mixed-integer optimization problems. In this article, a fuzzy mixed-integer mathematical programming model is developed to formulate the fuzzy mixed-integer optimization problem. In addition the MIHDE is introduced to solve the fuzzy mixed-integer programming problem. Finally, the illustrative example shows that satisfactory results can be obtained by the proposed method. This demonstrates that MIHDE can effectively handle fuzzy mixed-integer optimization problems.     

基于GA-PSO的天基预警系统资源调度方法

为解决天基预警系统中的卫星资源调度问题,从预警任务特点出发,在对预警任务进行分解的基础上,建立了资源调度模型．结合传统遗传算法（GA）和粒子群算法（PSO）的优点,采用一种混合遗传粒子群（GA-PSO）算法来求解资源调度问题．该算法在解决粒子编解码问题的前提下,将遗传算法的遗传算子应用于粒子群算法,改善了粒子群算法的寻优能力．实验结果表明,提出的算法能有效解决多目标探测时天基预警系统的资源调度问题,调度结果优于传统粒子群算法和遗传算法．     

基于模糊物元PSO混合优化算法的客户创意挖掘*

针对具有模糊性、缺乏系统性和主题性的新产品开发模糊前端客户创意,提出一种基于模糊物元和改进微粒群算法的混合启发式挖掘方法。首先将模糊理论引入物元分析,将客户的个性化要求、特征及相应的模糊量值结合起来建立其形式化模糊物元模型, 应用模糊物元优化方法将客户多需求优化问题转换为单需求优化问题;然后给出了最优客户创意的自适应变异微粒群（AMPSO）算法的求解方法,并与遗传算法加以比较,证明该算法的有效性和先进性。最后将该算法应用于某型号汽车外观造型设计的客户创意挖掘中,有效指导了产品创新的实施。     

PSO和GA的对比及其混合算法的研究进展

系统地介绍了微粒群优化算法(PSO)和遗传算法(GA)的基本原理、发展和应用的状况,比较了两者的原理特点,列举了各种微粒群优化算法和遗传算法的改进算法。介绍和总结目前出现的两种算法思想结合的局部混合与全局混合两种方式,并用图表给出了说明。分析了两种混合方式的局限性,提出对具体问题找出计算速度和计算精度的平衡点来改进算法。最后做了总结和展望,指出微粒群算法的应用需进一步拓展,和其他算法结合是提高其性能的主要方向。     

Nonlinear continuous multi-response problems: a novel two-phase hybrid genetic based metaheuristic

Generally the most real world production systems are tackling several different responses and the problem is optimizing these responses concurrently. This study strives to present a new two-phase hybrid genetic based metaheuristic for optimizing nonlinear continuous multi-response problems. Premature convergence and getting stuck in local optima, which makes the algorithm time consuming, are common problems dealing with genetic algorithms (GAs). So we hybridize GA with a clustering approach and particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) to make a balanced relationship between time consuming and premature termination. The proposed algorithm also tries to find Ideal Points (IPs) for response functions. IPs are considered as improvement measures that determine when PSO should start. PSO based local search exploit Pareto archive solutions to enhance performance of the algorithm by expanding the search space. Since there is no standard benchmark in this field, we use two case studies from distinguished paper in multi-response optimization and compare the results with some of the mentioned algorithms in the literature. Results show the outperformance of the proposed algorithm than all of them.     

An efficient hybrid approach based on PSO, ACO and k-means for cluster analysis

Clustering is a popular data analysis and data mining technique. A popular technique for clustering is based on k-means such that the data is partitioned into K clusters. However, the k-means algorithm highly depends on the initial state and converges to local optimum solution. This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm to solve nonlinear partitional clustering problem. The proposed hybrid evolutionary algorithm is the combination of FAPSO (fuzzy adaptive particle swarm optimization), ACO (ant colony optimization) and k-means algorithms, called FAPSO-ACO–K, which can find better cluster partition. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated through several benchmark data sets. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than other algorithms such as PSO, ACO, simulated annealing (SA), combination of PSO and SA (PSO–SA), combination of ACO and SA (ACO–SA), combination of PSO and ACO (PSO–ACO), genetic algorithm (GA), Tabu search (TS), honey bee mating optimization (HBMO) and k-means for partitional clustering problem.     

A novel two-stage hybrid swarm intelligence optimization algorithm and application

This paper presents a novel two-stage hybrid swarm intelligence optimization algorithm called GA–PSO–ACO algorithm that combines the evolution ideas of the genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization based on the compensation for solving the traveling salesman problem. In the proposed hybrid algorithm, the whole process is divided into two stages. In the first stage, we make use of the randomicity, rapidity and wholeness of the genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization to obtain a series of sub-optimal solutions (rough searching) to adjust the initial allocation of pheromone in the ACO. In the second stage, we make use of these advantages of the parallel, positive feedback and high accuracy of solution to implement solving of whole problem (detailed searching). To verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed hybrid algorithm, various scale benchmark problems from TSPLIB are tested to demonstrate the potential of the proposed two-stage hybrid swarm intelligence optimization algorithm. The simulation examples demonstrate that the GA–PSO–ACO algorithm can greatly improve the computing efficiency for solving the TSP and outperforms the Tabu Search, genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, PS–ACO and other methods in solution quality. And the experimental results demonstrate that convergence is faster and better when the scale of TSP increases.     

基于改进PSO和FCM的模糊辨识

为了提高T-S模糊模型的辨识精度和效率,本文提出了一种改进的粒子群算法和模糊C均值聚类算法相结合的模糊辨识新方法。在该方法中,针对粒子群算法在处理高维复杂函数时容易陷入局部极值的问题,提出了一种粒子群局部搜索和全局搜索动态调整的全新优化算法。模糊C均值聚类算法是模糊辨识最常用的方法之一,该算法简单,计算效率高,但是对初始化特别敏感,容易陷入局部最优。为了解决这一问题,利用改进粒子群算法的全局搜索能力优化聚类中心,显著地提高了算法的辨识精度和效率。最后,针对非线性系统进行建模仿真,仿真结果表明了本文方法的有效性和优越性。     

求解作业车间调度问题的微粒群遗传退火算法

标准微粒群算法（PSO）通常被用于求解连续优化的问题,很少被用于离散问题的优化求解,如作业车间调度问题（JSP）。因此,针对PSO算法易早熟、收敛慢等缺点提出一种求解作业车间调度问题（JSP）的混合微粒群算法。算法将微粒群算法、遗传算法（GA）、模拟退火（SA）算法相结合,既增强了算法的局部搜索能力,降低了算法对参数的依赖,同时改善了PSO算法和GA算法易早熟的缺点。对经典JSP问题的仿真实验表明：与标准微粒群算法相比,该算法不仅能有效避免算法中的早熟问题,并且算法的全局收敛性得到了显著提高。     

An improved biogeography based optimization approach for segmentation of human head CT-scan images employing fuzzy entropy

The present paper proposes the development of a three-level thresholding based image segmentation technique for real images obtained from CT scanning of a human head. The proposed method utilizes maximization of fuzzy entropy to determine the optimal thresholds. The optimization problem is solved by employing a very recently proposed population-based optimization technique, called biogeography based optimization (BBO) technique. In this work we have proposed some improvements over the basic BBO technique to implement nonlinear variation of immigration rate and emigration rate with number of species in a habitat. The proposed improved BBO based algorithm and the basic BBO algorithm are implemented for segmentation of fifteen real CT image slices. The results show that the proposed improved BBO variants could perform better than the basic BBO technique as well as genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) based segmentation of the same images using the principle of maximization of fuzzy entropy.     

Bi-level programming enabled design of an intelligent maritime search and rescue system

This paper studies an intelligent maritime search and rescue (SAR) system problem. According to historical accidents and available SAR equipment information, a bi-level mixed-integer programming (MIP) model is proposed to determine the type and number of SAR equipment allocated to activated stations. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and genetic algorithm (GA) algorithm are applied to solve the proposed mathematical model. Computational experiments based on real instances in the East Sea China not only validate the effectiveness of the bi-level MIP model in balancing two objectives during decision process, but also indicate that PSO algorithm is better than GA algorithm to solve the proposed model and generate reasonable equipment allocation plans. Some managerial implications are also outlined on the basis of the numerical experiments.     

A 2-phase algorithm for solving the single allocation p-hub center problem

The single allocation p-hub center problem is an NP-hard location–allocation problem which consists of locating hub facilities in a network and allocating non-hub nodes to hub nodes such that the maximum distance/cost between origin–destination pairs is minimized. In this paper we present an exact 2-phase algorithm where in the first phase we compute a set of potential optimal hub combinations using a shortest path based branch and bound. This is followed by an allocation phase using a reduced sized formulation which returns the optimal solution. In order to get a good upper bound for the branch and bound we developed a heuristic for the single allocation p-hub center problem based on an ant colony optimization approach. Numerical results on benchmark instances show that the new solution approach is superior over traditional MIP-solver like CPLEX. As a result we are able to provide new optimal solutions for larger problems than those reported previously in literature. We are able to solve problems consisting of up to 400 nodes in reasonable time. To the best of our knowledge these are the largest problems solved in the literature to date.     

基于混合粒子群的RFID网络的优化部署*

在RFID网络系统中,贴有标签的物品可能随机地布置着,针对如何有效地放置阅读器,使得阅读器可以读取多个标签信息同时减小冲突的问题,建立了RFID网络系统的优化模型,提出了一种混合粒子群算法来优化部署阅读器的位置。实验结果表明,混合粒子群算法分别比传统的粒子群(PSO)和遗传算法(GA)在收敛速度和寻优能力上具有更好的性能,体现出混合粒子群算法的优越性。     

A fast recursive algorithm based on fuzzy 2-partition entropy approach for threshold selection

The fuzzy c-partition entropy approach for threshold selection is an effective approach for image segmentation. The approach models the image with a fuzzy c-partition, which is obtained using parameterized membership functions. The ideal threshold is determined by searching an optimal parameter combination of the membership functions such that the entropy of the fuzzy c-partition is maximized. It involves large computation when the number of parameters needed to determine the membership function increases. In this paper, a recursive algorithm is proposed for fuzzy 2-partition entropy method, where the membership function is selected as S-function and Z-function with three parameters. The proposed recursive algorithm eliminates many repeated computations, thereby reducing the computation complexity significantly. The proposed method is tested using several real images, and its processing time is compared with those of basic exhaustive algorithm, genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO) and simulated annealing (SA). Experimental results show that the proposed method is more effective than basic exhaustive search algorithm, GA, PSO, ACO and SA.     

一种保持PSO与GA独立性的混合优化算法

提出了一种基于粒子群和遗传算法的新混合算法。该算法首先将样本集分为N组,每一组分别进行不同参数的粒子群或遗传运算,在每一步的迭代中选取了粒子群算法和遗传算法的最优值作为全局最优,使每一步的迭代都优于单一的PSO和GA算法,进而提高了算法整体的性能。与其他混合最优化算法不同的是,该算法没有破坏粒子群和遗传算法的独立性,而是仅通过全局最优样本把两个算法结合在一起。在经典测试函数的仿真实验中,新算法表现了更好的寻优性能及寻优稳定性。