Title : 
Use of Cultural Particle Swarm Optimization for Loney´s Solenoids Design
         
        
            Author : 
Coelho, Leandro Dos Santos ; Mariani, Viviana Cocco
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Graduate Program of Production & Syst. Eng., Parana Pontifical Catholic Univ., Curitiba
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This work presents the use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques with the particles´ population space based on normative knowledge of cultural algorithms (CA). In this work, the optimal shape design of Loney´s solenoids benchmark problem is carried out by PSO, PSO-CA, Gaussian PSO and Gaussian PSO-CA approaches
         
        
            Keywords : 
Gaussian processes; particle swarm optimisation; solenoids; Gaussian PSO; Loney solenoids design; cultural algorithms; optimal shape design; particle population space; particle swarm optimization; Algorithm design and analysis; Cultural differences; Design optimization; Equations; Gaussian distribution; Optimization methods; Particle swarm optimization; Probability distribution; Random number generation; Solenoids;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Miami, FL
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0320-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CEFC-06.2006.1633272