Investigation into the efficiency of different bionic algorithm combinations for a COBRA meta-heuristic

Previously, a meta-heuristic approach, called Co-Operation of Biology-Related Algorithms or COBRA, for solving real-parameter optimization problems was introduced and described. COBRA's basic idea consists of a cooperative work of five well-known bionic algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimiz...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 173; no. 1; pp. 12001 - 12007
Main Authors: Akhmedova, Sh, Semenkin, E
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.02.2017
Subjects:
Algorithms
Bionics
Cooperative work
Heuristic
Heuristic methods
Particle swarm optimization
Search algorithms
Workability
ISSN:1757-8981, 1757-899X
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Summary:Previously, a meta-heuristic approach, called Co-Operation of Biology-Related Algorithms or COBRA, for solving real-parameter optimization problems was introduced and described. COBRA's basic idea consists of a cooperative work of five well-known bionic algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization, the Wolf Pack Search, the Firefly Algorithm, the Cuckoo Search Algorithm and the Bat Algorithm, which were chosen due to the similarity of their schemes. The performance of this meta-heuristic was evaluated on a set of test functions and its workability was demonstrated. Thus it was established that the idea of the algorithms' cooperative work is useful. However, it is unclear which bionic algorithms should be included in this cooperation and how many of them. Therefore, the five above-listed algorithms and additionally the Fish School Search algorithm were used for the development of five different modifications of COBRA by varying the number of component-algorithms. These modifications were tested on the same set of functions and the best of them was found. Ways of further improving the COBRA algorithm are then discussed.
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ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/173/1/012001