A simulated weed colony system with subregional differential evolution for multimodal optimization

作者：Roy Subhrajit; Islam Sk Minhazul; Das Swagatam^*; Ghosh Saurav; Vasilakos Athanasios V

来源：Engineering Optimization, 2013, 45(4): 459-481.

DOI：10.1080/0305215X.2012.678494

• weed colony systems
• multimodal optimization
• niching
• differential evolution
• particle swarm optimization

This article proposes a two-stage hybrid multimodal optimizer based on invasive weed optimization (IWO) and differential evolution (DE) algorithms for locating and preserving multiple optima of a real-parameter functional landscape in a single run. Both IWO and DE have been modified from their original forms to meet the demands of the multimodal problems used in this work. A p-best crossover operation is introduced in the subregional DEs to improve their exploitative behaviour. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with a number of state-of-the-art multimodal optimization algorithms over a benchmark suite comprising 21 basic multimodal problems and seven composite multimodal problems. Experimental results suggest that the proposed technique is able to provide better and more consistent performance over the existing well-known multimodal algorithms for the majority of test problems without incurring any serious computational burden.

• 出版日期2013-4-1