Volume 4, Number 2 (2008)

Special Issue: Particle Swarm Optimization
Guest Editor : Maurice Clerc, James Kennedy and Patrick Siarry

CONTENTS

Editorial

Welcome Note

How It Works: Collaborative Trial and Error
JAMES Kennedy

pp. 71-78  PDF Full Text

Why does it work?
Maurice Clerc

pp. 79-91  PDF Full Text

Theoretical analysis of particle swarm trajectories through a mechanical analogy
J.L. Fernández-Martínez, E. García-Gonzalo and J.P. Fernández-Alvarez

pp. 93-104  PDF Full Text

Stochastic Star Communication Topology in Evolutionary Particle Swarms (EPSO)
Vladimiro Miranda, Hrvoje Keko and Álvaro Jaramillo Duque

pp. 105-116  PDF Full Text

Angle Modulated Particle Swarm Optimization Based Islanding of Large Scale Power Systems
Wenxin Liu, Li Liu and David A. Cartes

pp. 117-127  PDF Full Text

Social Impact and Optimization
Martin Macas and Lenka Lhotska

pp. 129-136  PDF Full Text

A Taxonomy of Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizers
Mohammed El-Abd and Mohamed S. Kamel

pp. 137-144  PDF Full Text

Multi objective particle swarm optimization using enhanced dominance and guide selection
Gerard Dupont, Sebastien Adam, Yves Lecourtier and Bruno Grilheres

pp. 145-158  PDF Full Text

Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Bicriteria Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem
Ozgur Uysal and Serol Bulkan

pp. 159-175  PDF Full Text

Particle Swarm Optimization For Quadratic Assignment Problems–A Forma Analysis Approach
Tao Gong and Andrew L. Tuson

pp. 177-185  PDF Full Text

A New Approach to Evolutionary Tree Reconstruction Combining Particle Swarm Optimization with p-ECR
Jianfu Li and Maozu Guo

pp. 187-195  PDF Full Text

Multi-robot search using a physically-embedded Particle Swarm Optimization
James Hereford and Michael Siebold

pp. 197-209  PDF Full Text

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Parameter Identification using Particle Swarm Optimization
Li Liu, Wenxin Liu and David A. Cartes

pp. 211-218  PDF Full Text