A Parellelzing Modified Particle Swarm Optimizer and its Application to Discrete Topological Optimization
recently, a modified Particle Swarm Optimizer (MLPSO) has been succeeded in solving truss topological optimization problems and competitive results are obtained. In order to reduce its execution time for solving large complex optimization problem, a parallel version for this optimizer (PMLPSO) is studied in this paper. This paper first gives an overview of PSO algorithm as well as the modified PSO, and then a design and an implementation of parallel PSO is proposed. Since most of structural problems involve discrete design variables, an effect strategy is involved in MLPSO in order to operate on discrete variables. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested by two examples and promising speed-up rate is obtained. Final part is conclusion and outlook.