Abstract: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been frequently employed to solve diversified optimization problems. Choosing initial placement for population plays an important role in meta-heuristic ...

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Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of initiating the population with various probability distributions and low discrepancy sequences on the behavior of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The ...

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1 Management and Decision Engineering Laboratory (MDE-Lab), Department of Financial and Management Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece 2 School of Economic ...

Whenever you look at a clock, do you always see the same time? It might be 11:11 or 3:33. Maybe repeating numbers have made their way into other aspects of your life, such as a receipt that totaled ...

Whenever you look at a clock, do you always see the same time? It might be 11:11 or 3:33. Maybe repeating numbers have made their way into other aspects of your life, such as a receipt that totaled ...