Fig. 7
From: Uncovering the social interaction network in swarm intelligence algorithms
The impact of the removal of the edges on the growth of the number of components depends on the structure of the swarm topology. (a) The rapidly increasing in the number of components of the global topology leads to a type of behavior related to the exploitation search mode. In the ring topology, the number of components increases slowly, indicating the existence of sub-swarms searching more independently through the search space (Oliveira et al. 2014). The different colors/markers in the plot represent the time window tw. The normalized weight is the weight value divided by 2tw, which is the highest possible weight in the network. In all cases, the swarm consists of 100 individuals. (b) Each topology leads to distinct interaction diversity that can be described by the number of components emerging (color intensity) as edges are removed (y-axis) of the interaction network with different time windows (x-axis)