Solutions of Nonlinear Multilevel Programming Based on Particle Swarm Optimization
ZHANG GuoFu, JIANG JianGuo, QI MeiBin, SU ZhaoPin
School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009 Engineering Research Center of Safety Critical Industrial Measurement and Control Technology, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009
Abstract：An optimization algorithm for nonlinear multilevel programming problems is presented based on the analysis of the standard particle swarm optimization. The search for StackelbergNash equilibrium of nonlinear multilevel programming problems is implemented. The dynamic region is used to search the whole solution space, therefore, the algorithm has good performance to achieve the global convergence. An adaptive disturbance factor is adopted to make swarms jump out of local optimums, and a constrained fitness value is added to ensure the feasibility of the solutions. The effectiveness of the algorithm has been proved by experiments.
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