An improved local best searching in Particle Swarm Optimization using Differential Evolution

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has achieved remarkable attentions for its capability to solve diverse global optimization problems. However, this method also shows several limitations. PSO easily trapped in the global optimum and often required vast computational cost when solving high dimensional problems. Therefore, we propose some modifications to overcome these issues. In this work, Differential Evolution (DE) mutation and crossover operations are implemented to improve local best particles searching in PSO. A numerical analysis is carried out using benchmark functions and is compared with standard PSO and DE method. Results presented suggest the prospective of our proposed method.