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Abstract The fireworks algorithm, which is inspired by the explosion of fireworks, is a new swarm-based meta-heuristic algorithm for global optimization. This work proposes an improved fireworks optimization algorithm (IFWA) based on the enhanced fireworks algorithm (EFWA). Three aspects of improvement are presented after an analysis of the drawbacks of EFWA. These improvements are a new explosion scheme, GS-Gaussian explosion operator, and deep information exchange strategy. The proposed IFWA is tested on 23 benchmark function optimization problems and a real engineering problem, namely, optimal controller design for automotive active suspension. Optimization results prove that IFWA has competitive advantage compared with EFWA and other popular meta-heuristic algorithms and demonstrates the potential to solve real problems effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, an efficient approach of combining Takagi–Sugeno–Kang fuzzy system with wavelet based neural network is presented. The model replaces the constant or a linear function of inputs in conclusion part of traditional TSK fuzzy model with wavelet neural network (WNN), thus each rule uses fuzzy set to separate the input space into subspaces spanned by different wavelet functions. For finding the optimal values for parameters of our proposed fuzzy wavelet neural network (proposed-FWNN), a hybrid learning algorithm integrating an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) and gradient descent algorithm is employed. The two-layer inline-PSO process is proposed in this paper, whose adjustment scheme is more fitting the consequent pattern learning based gradient descent optimization and will locate a good region in the search space. Simulation examples are given to test the efficiency of proposed-FWNN model for identification of the dynamic plants. It is seen that our modeling and optimization approach results in a better performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Endometrial carcinoma is a life-threatening disease that causes serious damage to the women's health. This paper discusses classifications of 87 endometrial samples with gene expressions that are cancerous or cancer-free. Every sample has 5 indicators. For every indicator, the corresponding genes of the missing data are deleted and the signal noise ratios (SNRs) are calculated to filter the irrelevant genes. Then the obtained new samples use the principle component analysis to decrease the dimensions. Finally 10 random samples are selected to be the testing samples for classification. Thus the classification accuracy rate is given for every indicator. Based on cancer related to 5 indicators, the combination of the 5 indicators is used to classify to make new 87 endometrial samples as cancerous or cancer-free. We repeatedly process these new samples by deleting the missing data, filtering the irrelevant genes with SNRs, and decreasing the dimensions with PCA, an obtain the new data. The proposed method is that the particle swarm algorithm (PSO) and the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is combined to optimize the parameters of Elman recurrent neural network (ERNN), written as PSOGWO-ERNN. The results show that PSOGWO-ERNN is superior to the single ERNN, ERNN optimized by PSO or GWO (PSO-ERNN or GWO-ERNN), and the classification accuracy rate of PSOGWO-ERNN reaches 88.8506%. The results also show that the neural networks optimized by some swarm intelligence algorithms are more useful for classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an improved dynamic particle swarm optimization algorithm, which uses a new and effective exponential decreasing inertia weight (EDIW) strategy. Based on the improved EDIW-PSO algorithm together with AdaBoost algorithm, we adjust the parameters (centers, widths, shape parameters and connection weights) of GRBF and present a novel hybrid EDIW-PSO-AdaBoost-GRBF model. Two application examples are given on the proposed model. The results obtained show that the proposed model is effective and feasible for prediction problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]