Neighborhood Re-Structuring in Particle Swarm Optimization

• Author: Arvind Mohais and Rui Mendes and Christopher Ward and Christian Postoff
• Booktitle: 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005)
• Year: 2005
• Address: Sydney, Australia
• Pages: 776--785
• Editor: Shichao Zhang, Ray Jarvis
• Month: Dec
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Downloads: [pdf] 

DynDE: Differential Evolution for Dynamic Optimization Problems

• Author: Rui Mendes and Arvind Mohais
• Booktitle: 2005 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation
• Year: 2005
• Address: Edinburgh, UK
• Pages: 583--590
• Month: Sep
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Downloads: [pdf] 

What Makes a Successful Society? Experiments with Population Topologies in Particle Swarms

• Author: Rui Mendes and José Neves
• Booktitle: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. XVII Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA'04
• Year: 2004
• Address: São Luís, Maranhão -- Brazil
• Editor: Ana L.C. Bazzan and Sofiane Labidi
• Pages: 346--355
• Month: Sep-Oct
• Publisher: Springer
• Downloads: [pdf] 

Population Topologies and Their Influence in Particle Swarm Performance

• Author: Rui Mendes
• School: Escola de Engenharia
• Year: 2004
• Address: Universidade do Minho
• Month: May
• Note: Phd Thesis
• Downloads: [pdf] 

The Fully Informed Particle Swarm: Simpler, Maybe Better

• Author: Rui Mendes and James Kennedy and José Neves
• Journal: IEEE Transactions of Evolutionary Computation
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 8
• Number: 3
• Pages: 204--210
• Month: Jun
• Downloads: [pdf] 

An Architecture for Co-Evolving Agents in the Robocup Simulation League

• Author: Miguel Rocha and Paulo Cortez and Rui Mendes and José Neves
• Booktitle: 5th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation (ABS'2004)
• Year: 2004
• Address: Lisbon, Portugal
• Editor: Helder Coelho and Bernard Espinasse
• Month: May
• Pages: 127--132

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Local Optima: How topologies can Save the Day

• Author: Rui Mendes and James Kennedy and José Neves
• Booktitle: Proceedings of the 12th Conference Intelligent Systems Application to Power Systems (ISAP2003)
• Year: 2003
• Address: Lemnos, Greece
• Month: Aug
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Downloads: [postscript]

Neighborhood Topologies in Fully-Informed and Best-Of-Neighborhood Particle Swarms

• Author: James Kennedy and Rui Mendes
• Booktitle: 2003 IEEE SMC Workshop on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (SMCia03)
• Year: 2003
• Address: Binghamton, NY
• Month: Jun
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Downloads: [pdf] 

Watch Thy Neighbor Or How The Swarm Can Learn From Its Environment

• Author: Rui Mendes and James Kennedy and José Neves
• Booktitle: Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS-2003)
• Year: 2003
• Address: Indianapolis, IN
• Month: Apr
• Organization: Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Downloads: [pdf] 

Topological Structure and Particle Swarm Performance

• Author: J. Kennedy and R. Mendes
• Booktitle: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2002)
• Year: 2002
• Editor: David B. Fogel and Xin Yao and Garry Greenwood and Hitoshi Iba and Paul Marrow and Mark Shackleton
• Address: Honolulu, Hawaii
• Month: May
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Downloads: [pdf] [postscript]

Particle Swarm for Feedforward Neural Network Training

• Author: R. Mendes and P. Cortez and M. Rocha and J. Neves
• Booktitle: 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2002)
• Year: 2002
• Address: Honolulu, Hawaii
• Month: May
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Downloads: [pdf] 

Sitting Guests at a Wedding Party: Experiments on Genetic and Evolutionary Constrained Optimization

• Author: M. Rocha and R. Mendes and P. Cortez and J. Neves
• Booktitle: Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2001)
• Year: 2001
• Address: South Korea
• Month: May
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society