Convergent Heterogenous Particle Swarm Optimization

Multi-swarm , convergence analysis, heterogenous search, cooperartion

In CHPSO, there are four cooperative sub-swarms that can share information from each other but maintain differences. Various sub-swarms execute different search mechanisms for the potential solutions, and we find that the cooperation among the various sub-swarms is helpful for keeping a good balance between the exploration and exploitation in the search process, making the particles capable of converging to stable points.