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In order to overcome the drawback of the standard PSO, such as being subject to falling into local optimization, an improved PSO algorithm based on three sub-swarms exchange is proposed. Firstly the method divides the whole swarm into three sub-swarms which evolve jointly according to three different models, that is, one evolves with the standard PSO model, and the second with social only model and...