Repository and Mutation based Particle Swarm Optimization (RMPSO): A new PSO variant applied to reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a meta-heuristic approach based on swarm intelligence, which is inspired by the social behaviour of bird flocking or fish schooling. The main disadvantage of the basic PSO is that it suffers from premature convergence. To prevent the process of search from premature convergence as well as to improve the exploration and exploitation capability as a whole, here, in this paper, a modified variant, named Repository and Mutation based PSO (RMPSO) is proposed. In RMPSO variant, apart from applying five-staged successive mutation strategies for improving the swarm best as referred in Enhanced Leader PSO (ELPSO), two extra repositories have been introduced and maintained to store personal best and global best solutions having same fitness values. In each step, the personal and global best solutions are chosen randomly from their respective repositories which enhance exploration capability further, retaining the exploitation capability. The computational experiment on benchmark problem instances shows that in most of the cases, RMPSO performs better than other algorithms in terms of the statistical metrics taken into account. Moreover, the performance of the proposed algorithm remains consistent in most of the cases when the dimension of the problem is scaled up. RMPSO is further applied to a practical scenario: the reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN) based on Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model. The experimental results ensure that the RMPSO performs better than the state-of-the-art methods in the synthetic gene data set (gold standard) as well as real gene data set.     

进化粒子群优化算法及其在各向异性含水层参数估计中的应用

在粒子群算法的基础上,引入进化思想和组群思想提出一种新的智能优化算法———进化粒子群算法( EPSO)。基于抽水试验数据,将EPSO算法应用到各向异性含水层参数估计中,对算法性能进行研究并与其他算法进行了对比,发现标准粒子群算法及其一般改进算法已不能有效求解各向异性含水层参数,而EPSO算法进行多次计算后,1)结果可靠;2)目标函数值及待估参数稳定;3)对初始范围的鲁棒性好。结果表明EPSO算法对各向异性含水层参数估计问题具有可靠性、收敛性和鲁棒性,可望应用到更广泛的参数识别问题中。