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Particle Swarm Optimization Research Toolbox Documentation

Documentation Version 2016-03-08j

By George Evers

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Clickable Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1

Statement of Purpose ......................................................................................................... 1 Documentation Overview ................................................................................................... 1

Conceptual Outline ......................................................................................................... 1 The Documentation as a Help Menu.............................................................................. 1 Formats Available ........................................................................................................... 2

Toolbox Compatibility ......................................................................................................... 2 Prerequisite Terminology ................................................................................................... 2

Decision Variable ............................................................................................................ 2 Decision Vector ............................................................................................................... 2 Control Panel .................................................................................................................. 2 Switches .......................................................................................................................... 3 Settings ........................................................................................................................... 3 Trial ................................................................................................................................. 3 Column (Statistics Pertaining to One Set of Trials) ........................................................ 3 Table (One or More Columns) ........................................................................................ 4

I. System Preparation ................................................................................................................. 5 Setting Virtual Memory Size ............................................................................................... 5

Step 1 .............................................................................................................................. 5 Steps 2 & 3 ...................................................................................................................... 5

Checking Java Version ......................................................................................................... 7 Setting MATLAB Preferences .............................................................................................. 7

Line Wrapping ................................................................................................................ 7 Command Windows Scroll Buffer .................................................................................. 7 Right-hand Text Limit ..................................................................................................... 7

Selecting a Suitable Font for Pasting into Word ................................................................. 8 Packing Memory ................................................................................................................. 8

II. A Guided Walk Through ........................................................................................................... 8 Installing the PSO Toolbox (i.e. Unzipping the Files) .......................................................... 8 Opening Files for Editing ..................................................................................................... 8 Auto-saving Figures ............................................................................................................. 8

Figure Switches ............................................................................................................... 8

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Figure Position ................................................................................................................ 9 Understanding Automatic Input Validation ........................................................................ 9 Understanding User Input Validation ............................................................................... 10 Interpreting Graphs .......................................................................................................... 11

Figure Numbers ............................................................................................................ 11 Objective Function ....................................................................................................... 11 Phase Plots ................................................................................................................... 11 Position vs. Iteration ..................................................................................................... 12

Analyzing Workspace Variables ........................................................................................ 12 fg ................................................................................................................................... 12 thresh_for_succ ............................................................................................................ 12 num_trials_successful .................................................................................................. 12 k .................................................................................................................................... 13 iter_success .................................................................................................................. 13 x .................................................................................................................................... 13 xhist .............................................................................................................................. 14 v .................................................................................................................................... 15 vhist .............................................................................................................................. 15 p .................................................................................................................................... 16 Evaluating Positions ...................................................................................................... 16 fp ................................................................................................................................... 17 f ..................................................................................................................................... 17 phist .............................................................................................................................. 17 l ..................................................................................................................................... 19 fhist, lhist, & lbest_neighb_size.................................................................................... 20 g .................................................................................................................................... 21 ghist .............................................................................................................................. 22 Workspace Organization .............................................................................................. 22 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 23

Knowing Where Data is Saved .......................................................................................... 23 Figures .......................................................................................................................... 24 Workspaces .................................................................................................................. 24

Activating and De-activating Graphs ................................................................................ 25 De-activating Phase Plots, Position vs. Iteration Graphs, and Benchmark Graph ....... 25 Activating Graphs of Personal Bests & Global Best vs. Iteration ................................. 26 Activating Graphs of Function Values vs. Iteration ...................................................... 26

Interpreting Newly Activated Graphs ............................................................................... 26 Function Value vs. Iteration ......................................................................................... 26 Personal Bests & Global Best vs. Iteration ................................................................... 26 Global Bests Function Value vs. Iteration ................................................................... 26

Switching to Static Inertia Weight .................................................................................... 26 Switching Between Lbest and Gbest PSOs ...................................................................... 27 Changing the Swarm Size .................................................................................................. 27 Changing the Numb