Particle Swarm Optimization Visualization

A Java desktop program for visualizing a basic implementation of the Particle Swarm Optimization search algorithm.

The basic algorithm was created from the pseudocode from this tutorial.

Motivation

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To explore and experiment with ways of visualizing PSO in high dimensional continuous spaces.

Background / Previous Work

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A paper that explores high dimensional PSO visualization using Sammon's Mapping:

Kim, Yong-Hyuk, Kang Hoon Lee, and Yourim Yoon. "Visualizing the search process of particle swarm optimization." Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation. ACM, 2009. PDF

A paper and project that sonifies the PSO:

Tavares, Tiago F., and Alan Godoy. "Sonification of population behavior in Particle Swarm Optimization." Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation. ACM, 2013. PDF

Usage:

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The PSO algorithm is in the PSO package, and the visualization tools are in the javaFxDriver package.

Compile:

javac -d bin src/pso/* src/javaFxDriver/*

Run:

java -cp ./bin javaFxDriver.Init

About

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More project documentation: http://0la0.github.io/#!/projects/psoViz