求解约束优化问题的新型帝国竞争算法

针对约束优化问题,提出一种约束处理的新策略,运用字典序方法同时优化问题的目标函数和约束违背程度,设计一种新型帝国竞争算法.该算法给出成本和归一化成本的新定义,以避免殖民国家势力为零,并应用嵌入殖民地间全局搜索的同化、基于优秀殖民地的革命、殖民国家的差分进化和新型帝国竞争等策略提高求解质量.基于两组约束优化标准测试函数的实验结果和算法对比表明,结合字典序方法的新型帝国竞争算法在约束优化问题的求解方面具有较强的优势.     

An efficient modified harmony search algorithm with intersect mutation operator and cellular local search for continuous function optimization problems

This paper proposes a modified harmony search (MHS) algorithm with an intersect mutation operator and cellular local search for continuous function optimization problems. Instead of focusing on the intelligent tuning of the parameters during the searching process, the MHS algorithm divides all harmonies in harmony memory into a better part and a worse part according to their fitness. The novel intersect mutation operation has been developed to generate new -harmony vectors. Furthermore, a cellular local search also has been developed in MHS, that helps to improve the optimization performance by exploring a huge search space in the early run phase to avoid premature, and exploiting a small region in the later run phase to refine the final solutions. To obtain better parameter settings for the proposed MHS algorithm, the impacts of the parameters are analyzed by an orthogonal test and a range analysis method. Finally, two sets of famous benchmark functions have been used to test and evaluate the performance of the proposed MHS algorithm. Functions in these benchmark sets have different characteristics so they can give a comprehensive evaluation on the performance of MHS. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm not only performs better than those state-of-the-art HS variants but is also competitive with other famous meta-heuristic algorithms in terms of the solution accuracy and efficiency.     

Modified imperialist competitive algorithm based on attraction and repulsion concepts for reliability-redundancy optimization

System reliability analysis and optimization are important to efficiently utilize available resources and to develop an optimal system design architecture. System reliability optimization has been solved by using optimization techniques including meta-heuristics. Meanwhile, the development of meta-heuristics has been an active research field of the reliability optimization wherein the redundancy, the component reliability, or both are to be determined. In recent years, a broad class of stochastic meta-heuristics, such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithm, tabu search, ant colony, and particle swarm optimization paradigms, has been developed for reliability-redundancy optimization of systems. Recently, a new kind of evolutionary algorithm called Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) was proposed. The ICA is based on imperialistic competition where the populations are represented by countries, which are classified as imperialists or colonies. However, the trade-off between the exploration (i.e. the global search) and the exploitation (i.e. the local search) of the search space is critical to the success of the classical ICA approach. An improvement in the ICA by implementing an attraction and repulsion concept during the search for better solutions, the AR-ICA approach, is proposed in this paper. Simulations results demonstrates the AR-ICA is an efficient optimization technique, since it obtained promising solutions for the reliability redundancy allocation problem when compared with the previously best-known results of four different benchmarks for the reliability-redundancy allocation problem presented in the literature.     

改进型帝国竞争模型算法的研究

为了改善帝国竞争算法（Imperialist Competitive Algorithm,ICA）易早熟收敛,搜索范围低,精度小,帝国之间信息交互性不强等缺点,提出了两种基于同化模型和竞争模型的改进的ICA算法。针对殖民地在移动过程中由于过于直接的靠近统治者而造成的搜索范围过小以及容易陷入局部最优的情况在同化过程中引入了差异因子来增大搜索范围。针对帝国之间的交互性的缺失,引入了人忠诚度的算子来实现帝国交互以及同化机制的模型改变,较强的帝国统治者会因为忠诚度算子获得更多的支持,从而细致划分了一个帝国中的每个国家,利用纳什均衡和最大最小公平性引导帝国竞争进而使算法向最优解进行搜索。在竞争过程中设置时间节点动态划分迭代阶段,根据迭代的不同阶段特点选择最优竞争系数。对算法进行了理论证明,最后将算法应用于多个函数进行检测并与其他的改进ICA算法进行比较,在搜索精度和范围广度上有了一定的提高。     

FICA: fuzzy imperialist competitive algorithm

Despite the success of the imperialist competitive algorithm （ICA） in solving optimization problems, it still suffers from frequently falling into local minima and low convergence speed. In this paper, a fuzzy version of this algorithm is proposed to address these issues. In contrast to the standard version of ICA, in the proposed algorithm, powerful countries are chosen as imperialists in each step;according to a fuzzy membership function, other countries become colonies of all the empires. In ab-sorption policy, based on the fuzzy membership function, colonies move toward the resulting vector of all imperialists. In this algorithm, no empire will be eliminated;instead, during the execution of the algorithm, empires move toward one point. Other steps of the algorithm are similar to the standard ICA. In experiments, the proposed algorithm has been used to solve the real world optimization problems presented for IEEE-CEC 2011 evolutionary algorithm competition. Results of experiments confirm the performance of the algorithm.     

An efficient hybrid approach based on Harris Hawks optimization and imperialist competitive algorithm for structural optimization

In this paper, a new hybrid algorithm is introduced, combining two Harris Hawks Optimizer (HHO) and the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) to achieve a better search strategy. HHO is a new population-based, nature-inspired optimization algorithm that mimics Harris Hawks cooperative behavior and chasing style in nature called surprise pounce HHO. It is a robust algorithm in exploitation, but has an unfavorable performance in exploring the search space, while ICA has a better performance in exploration; thus, combining these two algorithms produces an effective hybrid algorithm. The hybrid algorithm is called Imperialist Competitive Harris Hawks Optimization (ICHHO). The proposed hybrid algorithm's effectiveness is examined by comparing other nature-inspired techniques, 23 mathematical benchmark problems, and several well-known structural engineering problems. The results successfully indicate the proposed hybrid algorithm's competitive performance compared to HHO, ICA, and some other well-established algorithms.

     

带双重变异算子的自适应粒子群优化算法

提出了一种双重变异自适应粒子群优化算法,该算法除了使用自适应算子来改变惯性权重外,还在搜索过程中使用非均匀变异算子对位移进行变异,扩大位移的搜索范围.当算法陷入局部收敛时,使用柯西变异算子对全局最优解进行变异,促使粒子逃离局部最优的陷阱,从而最大限度的提升算法全局搜索的性能.通过对4个标准函数的测试,新算法的全局搜索能力有了显著提高,并且能够有效避免早熟收敛的陷阱.     

带变异算子的自适应粒子群优化算法

针对粒子群优化算法在进化过程的后期收敛速度较慢,易陷入局部最优的缺点,对基本粒子群优化算法作了如下改进：在速度更新公式中引入非线性递减的惯性权重;改进位置更新公式;对全局极值进行自适应的变异操作。提出一种新的混合变异算子的自适应粒子群优化算法。通过与其他算法的数值实验对比,表明了该算法具有较快的收敛速度和较好的收敛精度。     

Barrier coverage of WSNs with the imperialist competitive algorithm

Barrier coverage in wireless sensor networks has been used in many applications such as intrusion detection and border surveillance. Barrier coverage is used to monitor the network borders to prevent intruders from penetrating the network. In these applications, it is critical to find optimal number of sensor nodes to prolong the network lifetime. Also, increasing the network lifetime is one of the important challenges in these networks. Various algorithms have been proposed to extend the network lifetime while guaranteeing barrier coverage requirements. In this paper, we use the imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) for selecting sensor nodes to do barrier coverage monitoring operations called ICABC. The main objective of this work is to improve the network lifetime in a deployed network. To investigate the performance of ICABC, several simulations were conducted and the results of the experiments show that the ICABC significantly improves the performance than other state-of-art methods.     

一种求解旅行商问题的新型帝国竞争算法

帝国竞争算法是一种已在连续优化问题上取得较好效果的新型社会政治算法. 为了使该算法更好地应用于离散型组合优化问题, 提出一种求解旅行商问题的新型帝国竞争算法. 在传统算法的基础上, 改变初始帝国的生成方式; 同化过程采取替换重建方式, 以提升求解质量; 革命过程中引入自适应变异算子, 以增强搜索能力; 殖民竞争过程中调整了殖民地分配方式; 算法加入帝国增强过程, 以加快寻化速度. 实验结果表明, 新型帝国竞争算法求解质量高、收敛速度快.

     

求解作业车间调度问题的混合帝国主义竞争算法

针对最小化最大完工时间的作业车间调度问题（JSP）,提出一种结合帝国主义竞争算法（ICA）和禁忌搜索（TS）算法的混合算法。混合算法以帝国主义竞争算法为基础,在同化操作中融入遗传算法中的杂交算子和变异算子,使算法全局搜索能力更强。为了克服帝国主义竞争算法局部搜索能力弱的缺点,引入禁忌搜索算法进一步优化同化操作后的后代。禁忌搜索算法采用混合邻域结构和新型选择策略,使得算法能够更有效地搜索邻域解。混合算法兼具全局搜索能力和局部搜索能力,通过对13个经典的Benchmark调度问题进行仿真测试,并与近年4种新型混合算法进行对比分析,实验结果表明了所提算法求解Job Shop调度问题的有效性和稳定性。     

基于变异操作的蚁群算法用于连续函数优化

介绍了基本蚁群算法的数学模型,在一种新的连续空间分解方法的基础上,对信息素更新方式进行了改进,采用信息素局部更新和自适应的信息素全局更新相结合的方式,以提高算法的收敛速度。引入了进化算法中的变异操作,对寻优过程中每次迭代的最优解进行变异,增加了种群的多样性,避免算法的早熟,以提高改进后蚁群算法的全局收敛性能。实验结果表明,提出的基于变异操作的蚁群算法在连续函数寻优上有更好的收敛速度和收敛性能。     

受春秋战国史实启发的帝国竞争改进算法

针对帝国竞争算法过早收敛导致的求解高维函数时易陷入维数灾难的问题,受我国春秋战国时期诸侯国争雄称霸史实启发,提出了一种改进的帝国竞争算法.首先,在初始化国家阶段引入"合纵连横"竞争机制,以增强信息交互,保留较优种群;其次,在帝国同化过程中借鉴由国家各层面逐步渗透同化的殖民统治策略,以提升算法的开发能力;最后,加入判断并...     

多目标优化中带变异算子的灰色粒子群算法

针对如何在多目标优化过程中求解更好的Pareto解集,提出一种基于变异算子的灰色粒子群算法。该算法将灰色关联度应用于粒子群算法,且将方差的概念引入灰色关联度,以区分那些点关联系数有显著差异而其均值相等的各组序列。以此作为变异策略来控制粒子群算法,以避免现有灰色粒子群算法在求解多目标问题时所出现的局部收敛现象。通过四组不同类型的基准函数测试算法性能,测试结果表明该算法能很好地收敛到Pareto最优解集并有效避免了过早陷入局部最优解。     

一种求解函数优化问题的改进鲸鱼优化算法

为提高鲸鱼优化算法求解复杂函数优化问题的性能,提出一种基于自适应参数及小生境技术的改进鲸鱼优化算法。首先,引入自适应概率阈值协调算法的全局探索及局部开发能力;其次,利用自适应位置权重对鲸鱼位置更新公式进行调整,提高算法的收敛速度及寻优精度;最后,采用预选择小生境技术,避免算法出现早熟收敛的现象。通过对12个典型基准测试函数的仿真表明,改进算法的寻优精度和收敛速度较对比算法均有明显提升,证明了提出的改进策略能有效提高鲸鱼优化算法求解复杂函数优化问题的性能。     

基于帝国主义竞争算法的WSNs定位方案

遗传算法(GA)在无线传感器网络(WSNs)定位时存在收敛速度慢、精度低等弊端,针对以上问题,提出了一种利用帝国主义竞争算法(ICA)优化WSNs定位的方案。首先,使用了采样的方法来估计未知节点的初始位置;其次,依靠信标节点和相邻节点的相关信息建立了以最小化全局误差的三维空间的数学定位模型;最后,使用了最新的社会启发算法—ICA来进行定位优化。实验结果表明:与GA定位相比,ICA在WSNs定位上具有定位精度高、收敛迅速的优势。     

柔性车间调度问题的协作混合帝国算法

针对柔性车间调度问题（FJSP）的非确定性多项式特性,提出一种新的改进算法——协作混合帝国算法,用于寻找最小化最大完工时间的调度。首先,根据标准帝国竞争算法（ICA）的流程特性,设计了自适应参数的改进,可提高算法的收敛速度;然后,引入帝国和殖民地双改革变异,并针对工序排序和选择机器的不同阶段提出多变异改革策略,可提高算法的局部搜索效率;最后,创建大陆间国家交流合作机制,促进优秀国家对外信息交流,可提高算法全局搜索能力。通过对多个柔性车间调度实例进行仿真,结果表明,所提出算法在求解质量和稳定性上均优于多种群体智能进化算法,更适合解决该类调度问题。