Hybrid ICA-PSO algorithm for continuous optimization

作者：Idoumghar Lhassane^*; Cherin Nicolas; Siarry Patrick; Roche Robin; Miraoui Abdellatif

来源：Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2013, 219(24): 11149-11170.

DOI：10.1016/j.amc.2013.05.027

• Imperialist competitive algorithm
• Particle swarm optimization
• Hybrid algorithm
• Mono-objective and multi-objective benchmark functions

This paper proposes a new hybrid ICA-PSO algorithm designed to solve mono-objective and multi-objective problems. This continuous optimization algorithm combines an imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) and a particle swarm optimization (PSO) to improve the exploration ability of ICA. Moreover, ICA-PSO employs the crowding distance to maintain diversity in the Pareto front found by the algorithm as well as a crossover operator to improve the quality of the solutions in the memory of each individual. We test the performance of the proposed algorithm on mono-objective and multi-objective benchmark functions and three engineering design problems, thus showing its ability to optimize different types of optimization problems. Numerical results indicate that our approach outperforms several recently published algorithms, such as NSGA-II and SPEA2.

• 出版日期2013-8-15
• 单位INRIA