This paper proposes a novel normalization group strategy (NGS) to extend brain storm optimization (BSO) for power electronic circuit (PEC) design and optimization. As different variables in different dimensions of the...
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(纸本)9781450328814
This paper proposes a novel normalization group strategy (NGS) to extend brain storm optimization (BSO) for power electronic circuit (PEC) design and optimization. As different variables in different dimensions of the PEC represent different circuit components such as resistor, capacitor, or inductor, they have different physical significances and various search space that are even not in comparable range. Therefore, the traditional group method used in BSO, which is based on the solution position information, is not suitable when solving PEC. In order to overcome this issue, the NGS proposed in this paper normalizes different dimensions of the solution to the same comparable range. This way, the grouping operator of BSO can work when using BSO to solve PEC. The NGS based BSO (NGBSO) approach has been implemented to optimize the design of a buck regulator in PEC. The results are compared with those obtained by using genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). Results show that the NGBSO algorithm outperforms GA and PSO in our PEC design and optimization study. Moreover, the NGS can be regarded as an efficient method to extend BSO to real-world application problems whose dimensions are with different physical significances and search ranges.
Long-term stress may lead to many severe physical and mental problems. Traditional psychological stress detection usually relies on the active individual participation, which makes the detection labor-consuming, time-...
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Long-term stress may lead to many severe physical and mental problems. Traditional psychological stress detection usually relies on the active individual participation, which makes the detection labor-consuming, time-costing and hysteretic. With the rapid development of social networks, people become more and more willing to share moods via microblog platforms. In this paper, we propose an automatic stress detection method from cross-media microblog data. We construct a three-level framework to formulate the problem. We first obtain a set of low-level features from the tweets. Then we define and extract middle-level representations based on psychological and art theories: linguistic attributes from tweets' texts, visual attributes from tweets' images, and social attributes from tweets' comments, retweets and favorites. Finally, a Deep Sparse Neural Network is designed to learn the stress categories incorporating the cross-media attributes. Experiment results show that the proposed method is effective and efficient on detecting psychological stress from microblog data.
Search-based software project management is a hot research point in software engineering. Based on the event-based scheduler (EBS) we have proposed in previous work [1], this paper intends to further propose a two-pha...
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(纸本)9781450328814
Search-based software project management is a hot research point in software engineering. Based on the event-based scheduler (EBS) we have proposed in previous work [1], this paper intends to further propose a two-phase particle swarm optimization approach which uses a set-based representation for task scheduling and an integer representation for workload assignment scheduling to improve planning performance. Experimental results on 83 instances demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Since larger n-gram Language Model (LM) usually performs better in Statistical machine Translation (SMT), how to construct efficient large LM is an important topic in SMT. However, most of the existing LM growing meth...
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We propose a simple and effective approach to learn translation spans for the hierarchical phrase-based translation model. Our model evaluates if a source span should be covered by translation rules during decoding, w...
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Sentiment analysis from large-scale networked data attracts increasing attention in recent years. Most previous works on sentiment prediction mainly focus on text or image data. However, voice is the most natural and ...
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Sentiment analysis from large-scale networked data attracts increasing attention in recent years. Most previous works on sentiment prediction mainly focus on text or image data. However, voice is the most natural and direct way to express people's sentiments in real-time. With the rapid development of smart phone voice dialogue applications (e.g., Siri and Sogou Voice Assistant), the large-scale networked voice data can help us better quantitatively understand the sentimental world we live in. In this paper, we study the problem of sentiment prediction from large-scale networked voice data. In particular, we first investigate the data observations and underlying sentiment patterns in human-mobile voice communication. Then we propose a deep sparse neural network (DSNN) model to incorporate acoustic features, content information and geo-information to automatically predict sentiments. The effectiveness of the proposed model is verified by the experiments on a real dataset from Sogou Voice Assistant application.
The research progress of swarm robotics is reviewed in details. The swarm robotics inspired from nature is a combination of swarm intelligence and robotics, which shows a great potential in several aspects. First of a...
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The research progress of swarm robotics is reviewed in details. The swarm robotics inspired from nature is a combination of swarm intelligence and robotics, which shows a great potential in several aspects. First of all, the cooperation of nature swarm and swarm intelligence are briefly introduced, and the special features of the swarm robotics are summarized compared to a single robot and other multi-individual systems. Then the modeling methods for swarm robotics are described by a list of several widely used swarm robotics entity projects and simulation platforms. Finally, as a main part of this paper, the current research on the swarm robotic algorithms are presented in detail, including cooperative control mechanisms in swarm robotics for flocking, navigating and searching applications.
The degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem (dc- MSTP) is crucial in the design of networks and it is proved to be NP-hard. The recently developed evolutionary algorithm utilizing node-depth-degree representa...
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(纸本)9781450319645
The degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem (dc- MSTP) is crucial in the design of networks and it is proved to be NP-hard. The recently developed evolutionary algorithm utilizing node-depth-degree representation (EANDD) has successfully enabled the dc-MSTP solvable by generating new spanning trees in average time complexity O(√ n) , which is the fastest in the literature. However, as the generic operation of EANDD is to change two edges that are randomly selected from the entire tree, the efficiency of EANDD still has potential to be further improved. In this paper, we propose a novel pheromone-based tree modification method (PTMM) to improve the efficiency of EANDD. For each edge, a pheromone value is defined based on the historical contribution of the edge to the fitness of the spanning tree. Then, PTMM considers the pheromone value on each edge as a desirability measure for selecting the edge to construct the spanning tree. In this way, the more promising edge is more likely to be selected and therefore the efficiency of the tree modification operation in EANDD can be improved. The effectiveness and effieciency of PTMM is demonstrated on a set of benchmark instances in comparison with the original EANDD.
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based stochastic optimization algorithm that has been applied to various scientific and engineering problems. Despite its fast convergence speed, the original PSO is e...
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(纸本)9781450319645
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based stochastic optimization algorithm that has been applied to various scientific and engineering problems. Despite its fast convergence speed, the original PSO is easy to fall into local optima when solving multi-modal functions. To address this problem, we present a novel initialization strategy, namely Space-based Initialization Strategy (SIS), to help PSO avoid local optima. We embed SIS into the standard PSO and form a novel PSO variant named SIS-PSO. The performance of SIS-PSO is validated by 13 benchmark functions and the experimental results demonstrate that the SIS enables PSO to achieve faster convergence speed and higher solution accuracy especially in multi-modal problems.
This paper proposed an efficient discrete PSO algorithm. Following the general process of the recently proposed locally informed particle swarm (LIPS), the velocity update of each particle in the proposed algorithm de...
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(纸本)9781450319645
This paper proposed an efficient discrete PSO algorithm. Following the general process of the recently proposed locally informed particle swarm (LIPS), the velocity update of each particle in the proposed algorithm depends on the pbests of its nearest neighbors. However, in order to achieve optimization in discrete space, the related arithmetic operators and the concept of 'distance' in LIPS are redefined based on set theory. Thus, the proposed algorithm is termed Set-based LIPS (S-LIPS). Moreover, a reset scheme is embedded in S-LIPS to further improve population diversity in S-LIPS. By using the locally informed update mechanism and the reset scheme, the proposed algorithm is able to have both high convergence speed and good global search ability. S-LIPS is compared with a set-based comprehensive learning PSO on TSP benchmark instances. The experimental result shows that S-LIPS is a very promising algorithm for solving discrete problems, especially in the case where the scale of the problem is large.
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