TY - JOUR AU - Michal Pluhacek AU - Ivan Zelinka AU - Roman Senkerik AU - Adam Viktorin AU - Tomas Kadavy PY - 2018/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Particle Swarm Optimization with Distance Based Repulsivity JF - MENDEL JA - mendel VL - 24 IS - 2 SE - Research articles DO - 10.13164/mendel.2018.2.081 UR - https://mendel-journal.org/index.php/mendel/article/view/21 AB - In this study, we propose a repulsive mechanism for the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm that improves its performance on multi-modal problems. The repulsive mechanism is further extended with a distance-based modification. The results are presented and tested for statistical significance. We discuss the observations and propose further directions for the research. ER -