Differential Evolution with Better and Nearest Option for Function Optimization

no code implementations • 29 Oct 2018 • Haozhen Dong, Liang Gao, Xinyu Li, Haoran Zhong, Bing Zeng

Differential evolution(DE) is a conventional algorithm with fast convergence speed.

Whale swarm algorithm with the mechanism of identifying and escaping from extreme points for multimodal function optimization

no code implementations • 9 Apr 2018 • Bing Zeng, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao, Yuyan Zhang, Haozhen Dong

However, there are two difficulties urgently to be solved for most existing niching metaheuristic algorithms: how to set the optimal values of niching parameters for different optimization problems, and how to jump out of the local optima efficiently.