A time-varying transfer function for balancing the exploration and exploitation ability of a binary PSO

Md. Jakirul Islam, Xiaodong Li, Yi Mei

Abstract: Highlights•Analyse how transfer function in BPSO affects the balance between exploration and exploitation.•Propose a time-varying transfer function for BPSO to achieve a better such balance.•Validate the advantage of the new transfer function on knapsack instances and a truss design problem.