EXTRACTION OF FUNCTION FEATURES FOR AN AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

Tjorben Bogon, Georgios Poursanidis, Andreas D. Lattner, Ingo J. Timm

2011

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new approach for automatic parameter configuration of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) by using features of objective function evaluations for classification. This classification utilizes a decision tree that is trained by using 32 function features. To classify different functions we compute features of the function from observed PSO behavior. These features are an adequate description to compare different objective functions. This approach leads to a trained classifier which gets as input a function and returns a parameter set. Using this parameter set leads to an equal or better optimization process compared to the standard parameter settings of Particle Swarm Optimization on selected test functions.

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Bogon T., Poursanidis G., D. Lattner A. and J. Timm I. (2011). EXTRACTION OF FUNCTION FEATURES FOR AN AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-40-9, pages 51-60. DOI: 10.5220/0003134500510060


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@conference{icaart11,
author={Tjorben Bogon and Georgios Poursanidis and Andreas D. Lattner and Ingo J. Timm},
title={EXTRACTION OF FUNCTION FEATURES FOR AN AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={51-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003134500510060},
isbn={978-989-8425-40-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - EXTRACTION OF FUNCTION FEATURES FOR AN AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
SN - 978-989-8425-40-9
AU - Bogon T.
AU - Poursanidis G.
AU - D. Lattner A.
AU - J. Timm I.
PY - 2011
SP - 51
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0003134500510060