A Modified NM-PSO Method for Parameter Estimation Problems of Models.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2012, Article ID 530139, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/530139 Research Article A Modified NM-PSO Method for Parameter Estimation Problems of Models An Liu,1, 2 Erwie Zahara,3 and Ming-Ta Yang4 1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, St. John’s University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City, 25135, Taiwan 2 Graduate Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung-hsiao E. Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan 3 Department of Marketing and Logistics Management, St. John’s University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan 4 Department of Electrical Engineering, St. John’s University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to An Liu, liuan@.tw Received 9 June 2012; Accepted 9 September 2012 Academic Editor: Alain Miranville Copyright q 2012 An Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Ordinary differential equations usefully describe the behavior of a wide range of dynamic physical systems. The particle swarm optimization PSO method has been considered an effective tool for solving the engineering optimization problems for ordinary differential equations. This paper proposes a modified hybrid Nelder-Mead simplex search and particle swarm optimization M- NM-PSO method for solving parameter estimation problems. The M-NM-PSO method improves th