A global search strategy of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization

Based on the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm, we formulate the philosophy of QPSO and introduce a so-called mainstream thought of the population to evaluate the search scope of a particle and thus propose a novel parameter control method of QPSO. After that, we test the revised QPSO algorithm on several benchmark functions and the experiment results show its superiority.