A swarm optimization algorithm inspired in the behavior of the social-spider

Swarm intelligence is a research field that models the collective behavior in swarms of insects or animals. Several algorithms arising from such models have been proposed to solve a wide range of complex optimization problems. In this paper, a novel swarm algorithm called the Social Spider Optimization (SSO) is proposed for solving optimization tasks. The SSO algorithm is based on the simulation of cooperative behavior of social-spiders. In the proposed algorithm, individuals emulate a group of spiders which interact to each other based on the biological laws of the cooperative colony. The algorithm considers two different search agents (spiders): males and females. Depending on gender, each individual is conducted by a set of different evolutionary operators which mimic different cooperative behaviors that are typically found in the colony. In order to illustrate the proficiency and robustness of the proposed approach, it is compared to other well-known evolutionary methods. The comparison examines several standard benchmark functions that are commonly considered within the literature of evolutionary algorithms. The outcome shows a high performance of the proposed method for searching a global optimum with several benchmark functions.     

基于混合杂交与间歇变异的约束优化演化算法

In solving constrained optimization problems with genetic algorithms, more emphases are laid on handling constraints than increasing the search capability of algorithms, which often leed to unsatisfied results as reported inmost literatures. This paper proposes a new evolutionary algorithm for constrained optimization, emphasizing moreon increasing the search capability of the algorithm by means of hybrid crossovers and intermittent mutation while adopting a simple constraint handling technique called direct comparison. Numerical experiments and comparisons show the ettectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

基于内部罚函数的进化算法求解约束优化问题

为解决现有约束处理方法可行解的适应度函数不包含约束条件的问题,提出了一种内部罚函数候选解筛选规则.该候选解筛选规则分别对可行解和不可行解采用内部罚函数和约束违反度进行筛选,从而达到平衡最小化目标函数和满足约束条件的目的.以进化策略算法为基础,给出了基于内部罚函数候选解筛选规则的进化算法的一个实现.进一步地,从理论和实验角度分别验证了内部罚函数候选解筛选规则的有效性:以(1+1)进化算法为例,从进化成功率方面验证了内部罚函数候选解筛选规则的理论有效性;通过13个测试问题的数值实验,从进化成功率、候选解后代是可行解的比例、进化步长和收敛速度方面验证了内部罚函数候选解筛选规则的实验有效性.     

An Adaptive Tradeoff Model for Constrained Evolutionary Optimization

In this paper, an adaptive tradeoff model (ATM) is proposed for constrained evolutionary optimization. In this model, three main issues are considered: (1) the evaluation of infeasible solutions when the population contains only infeasible individuals; (2) balancing feasible and infeasible solutions when the population consists of a combination of feasible and infeasible individuals; and (3) the selection of feasible solutions when the population is composed of feasible individuals only. These issues are addressed in this paper by designing different tradeoff schemes during different stages of a search process to obtain an appropriate tradeoff between objective function and constraint violations. In addition, a simple evolutionary strategy (ES) is used as the search engine. By integrating ATM with ES, a generic constrained optimization evolutionary algorithm (ATMES) is derived. The new method is tested on 13 well-known benchmark test functions, and the empirical results suggest that it outperforms or performs similarly to other state-of-the-art techniques referred to in this paper in terms of the quality of the resulting solutions.     

动态分级的并行约束优化进化算法

提出一种动态分级的并行进化算法用于求解约束优化问题。该算法首先利用佳点集方法初始化种群。在进化过程中,将种群个体分为两个子种群,分别用于全局和局部搜索,并根据不同的搜索阶段动态调整各种级别中并行变量的数目。标准测试问题的实验结果表明了该算法的可行性和有效性。     

求解工程约束优化问题的PSO-ABC混合算法*

针对包含约束条件的工程优化问题,提出了基于人工蜂群的粒子群优化PSO-ABC算法。将PSO中较优的粒子作为ABC算法的蜜源,并使用禁忌表存储其局部极值,克服粒子群优化算法易陷入局部最优的缺陷。采用可行性规则进行约束处理,将粒子种群分为可行子群和不可行子群,并在ABC算法产生蜜源的过程中保留部分较优的可行解和不可行解的信息,弥补了可行性规则处理最优点位于约束边界附近的问题时存在的不足。四个典型工程优化设计的实验结果表明,该算法能够寻得更优的约束最优化解,且稳健性更强。     

求解非线性约束问题的混合粒子群优化算法

将处理约束问题的乘子法与改进的粒子群算法相结合,提出了一种求解非线性约束问题的混合粒子群算法。此算法兼顾了粒子群优化算法和乘子法的优点,对迭代过程中出现的不可行粒子,利用乘子法处理后产生可行粒子,然后用改进的粒子群算法来搜索其最优解,这样不仅减小了粒子群算法在寻优过程中陷入局部极小的概率,而且提高了搜索精度。数值试验结果表明提出的新算法具有搜索精度更高、稳定性更强、鲁棒性更好等特点。     

A Generic Framework for Constrained Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms

In this paper, we propose a generic, two-phase framework for solving constrained optimization problems using genetic algorithms. In the first phase of the algorithm, the objective function is completely disregarded and the constrained optimization problem is treated as a constraint satisfaction problem. The genetic search is directed toward minimizing the constraint violation of the solutions and eventually finding a feasible solution. A linear rank-based approach is used to assign fitness values to the individuals. The solution with the least constraint violation is archived as the elite solution in the population. In the second phase, the simultaneous optimization of the objective function and the satisfaction of the constraints are treated as a biobjective optimization problem. We elaborate on how the constrained optimization problem requires a balance of exploration and exploitation under different problem scenarios and come to the conclusion that a nondominated ranking between the individuals will help the algorithm explore further, while the elitist scheme will facilitate in exploitation. We analyze the proposed algorithm under different problem scenarios using Test Case Generator-2 and demonstrate the proposed algorithm's capability to perform well independent of various problem characteristics. In addition, the proposed algorithm performs competitively with the state-of-the-art constraint optimization algorithms on 11 test cases which were widely studied benchmark functions in literature.     

Self-adaptive constrained artificial bee colony for constrained numerical optimization

The artificial bee colony is a simple and effective global optimization algorithm. It has been successfully applied to solve a wide range of real-world optimization problem, and later, it was extended to constrained design problems as well. This paper describes a self-adaptive constrained artificial bee colony algorithm for constrained optimization problem based on feasible rule method and multiobjective optimization method. The employed bee colony severs as the global search engine for each population based on feasible rule. Then, the onlooker bee colony can explore the new search space based on the multiobjective optimization. In order to enhance the convergence rate of the proposed algorithm, a self-adaptive modification rate is proposed to make the algorithm can change many parameters. To verify the performance of our approach, 24 well-known constrained problems from 2006 IEEE congress on Evolution Computation (CEC2006) are employed. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm performs better than, or at least comparable to, state-of-the-art approaches in terms of the quality of the resulting solutions from literature.     

基于种群个体可行性的约束优化进化算法

提出一种新的求解约束优化问题的进化算法.该算法在处理约束时不引入惩罚因子,使约束处理问题简单化.基于种群中个体的可行性,分别采用3种不同的交叉方式和混合变异机制用于指导算法快速搜索过程.为了求解位于边界附近的全局最优解,引入一种不可行解保存和替换机制,允许一定比例的最好不可行解进入下一代种群.标准测试问题的实验结果表明了该算法的可行性和有效性.     

一种求解约束优化问题的新粒子群算法

结合外点法具有局部搜索能力强、处理约束条件简单的特点,把违反约束的粒子用外点法处理以满足约束设计出一种新的粒子群算法求解约束优化问题.实验结果表明,新算法性能优于现有其它算法,是一种通用、高效、稳健的智能算法.它兼顾粒子群算法和外点法的优点,既有较快的收敛速度,又能以非常大概率求得约束优化问题的全局最优解,同时还提高了解的精度.     

A new constraint handling method based on the modified Alopex-based evolutionary algorithm

In this paper, a new constraint handling method based on a modified AEA (Alopex-based evolutionary algorithm) is proposed. Combined with a new proposed ranking and selecting strategy, the algorithm gradually converges to a feasible region from a relatively feasible region. By introduction of an adaptive relaxation parameter μ, the algorithm fully takes into account different functions corresponding to different sizes of feasible region. In addition, an adaptive penalty function method is employed, which adaptively adjust the penalty coefficient so as to guarantee a moderate penalty. By solving 11 benchmark test functions and two engineering problems, experiment results indicate that the proposed method is reliable and efficient for solving constrained optimization problems. Also, it has great potential in handling many engineering problems with constraints, even with equations.     

一种基于AEA的约束优化算法μ-AEA

提出一种基于AEA算法的约束处理方法,该方法通过引入在迭代中自适应调整的松弛参数μ,逐渐缩小相对可行域直至收敛到可行域,且充分考虑到不同函数具有不同的可行域大小的情况.松弛约束的引入能允许包含有用信息的不可行解进入到子代种群中,增加算法的搜索能力.同时,引入一种自适应惩罚函数法,它利用不同约束条件满足的难易程度来自适应地调整惩罚系数,保证惩罚力度不会过大或过小.通过11个标准测试函数实验表明,该方法具有较满意的结果,在处理工程约束优化问题方面具有很大的潜力.     

Analyzing the Simple Ranking and Selection Process for Constrained Evolutionary Optimization

Many optimization problems that involve practical applications have functional constraints,and some of these constraints are active,meaning that they prevent any solution from improving the objective function value to the one that is better than any solution lying beyond the constraint limits.Therefore,the optimal solution usually lies on the boundary of the feasible region.In order to converge faster when solving such problems,a new ranking and selection scheme is introduced which exploits this feature ...     

最大化个人偏好的多目标优化进化算法

针对多目标优化过程中如何将个人偏好信息融入寻优搜索过程的问题,本文提出一种最大化个人偏好 以确定搜索方向的多目标优化进化算法．该算法首先采用权重和法将多目标问题转换为单目标问题,再利用遗传算 法进行全局搜索,在满足个人偏好约束条件下,每一代进化结束后通过解约束优化问题获得能够使种群综合适应度 具有最大方差的权重组合,从而最大化个人偏好以选择综合最优的个体进行遗传操作．按照不同个人偏好应用于传 动系统进行控制器设计,仿真结果表明该算法能够获得满足个人偏好约束条件下的全局最优解．     

动态调整成长方式的郊狼优化算法及其应用

郊狼优化算法在迭代运行时种群多样性降低,收敛速度变慢,易陷入局部最优,并且在求解约束优化问题时难以获得可行解。提出一种动态调整成长方式的郊狼优化算法（DGCOA）。在狼群进化中引入变异交叉策略,增强种群多样性,基于郊狼成长策略加入全局最优个体指导搜索,使得每个子种群中的个体从不同的方向快速逼近最优解位置,并根据种群中个体相似度对郊狼位置更新方式进行调整,平衡算法的全局探索与局部开发能力。在求解约束优化问题时,利用自适应约束处理方法构建新的适应度函数,协调优化目标和约束违反度。基于CEC2006对22个测试函数和3个工程设计问题进行仿真,结果表明,与COA、ICTLBO、ODPSO等算法相比,DGCOA算法具有较高的收敛精度和稳定性,适用于求解复杂优化问题。     

A multi-objective differential evolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization problems with low feasible ratio

Most current evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms perform well on multi-objective optimization problems without constraints, but they encounter difficulties in their ability for constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) with low feasible ratio. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes a multi-objective differential evolutionary algorithm named MODE-SaE based on an improved epsilon constraint-handling method. Firstly, MODE-SaE self-adaptively adjusts the epsilon level in line with the maximum and minimum constraint violation values of infeasible individuals. It can prevent epsilon level setting from being unreasonable. Then, the feasible solutions are saved to the external archive and take part in the population evolution by a co-evolution strategy. Finally, MODE-SaE switches the global search and local search by self-switching parameters of search engine to balance the convergence and distribution. With the aim of evaluating the performance of MODE-SaE, a real-world problem with low feasible ratio in decision space and fourteen bench-mark test problems, are used to test MODE-SaE and five other state-of-the-art constrained multi-objective evolution algorithms. The experimental results fully demonstrate the superiority of MODE-SaE on all mentioned test problems, which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for CMOPs which have low feasible ratio in search space.     

双局部粒子群算法解决环境经济调度问题

提出一种基于双局部最优的多目标粒子群优化算法,与可行解为优的约束处理方法相结合,来求解决非线性带约束的多目标电力系统环境经济调度问题。该算法针对传统多目标粒子群算法多样性低的局限性,通过对搜索空间的分割归类来增加帕累托最优解的多样性;并采用一种新的双局部最优来引导粒子的搜索,从而增强了算法的全局搜索能力。算法加入了可行解为优的约束处理方法对IEEE30节点六发电机电力系统环境经济负荷分配模型分别在几个不同复杂性问题的情况进行仿真测试,并与文献中的其他算法进行了比较。结果表明,改进的算法能够在保持帕累托最优解多样性的同时具有良好的收敛性能,更有效地解决电力系统环境经济调度问题。     

改进罚函数法与蝙蝠算法在约束优化中的应用

设计了一种基于自适应罚函数法和改进蝙蝠算法的约束优化问题求解方法。提出了一种自适应罚函数法,该处理方法综合考虑了约束违反的情况和进化过程的特点,如果某个约束违反的次数越多,则证明该约束越强,赋予惩罚系数越大;种群中的不可行解的数量越多,为保持种群的多样性,则约束应该取较小的值,即惩罚系数取较小的值。提出了一种改进的蝙蝠算法,利用混沌的遍历性特点产生初始种群,增强了初始种群的多样性和种群的质量;在考虑了脉冲响度的蝙蝠算法局部搜索中,融入了交叉操作;为防止算法在后期陷入局部最优解,引进了变异操作,保证了群体的多样性。将自适应罚函数法与改进的蝙蝠算法融合起来求解约束优化问题,4个复杂的标准测试函数和2个工程实际问题证明了该约束优化求解方法的可行性和有效性。     

独立自适应调整参数的粒子群优化算法

针对传统粒子群优化算法在求解复杂优化问题时易陷入局部最优和依赖参数的取值等问题,提出了一种独立自适应参数调整的粒子群优化算法。算法重新定义了粒子进化能力、种群进化能力以及进化率,在此基础上给出了粒子群惯性权重及学习因子的独立调整策略,更好地平衡了算法局部搜索与全局搜索的能力。为保持种群多样性,提高粒子向全局最优位置的收敛速度,在算法迭代过程中,采用粒子重构策略使种群中进化能力较弱的粒子向进化能力较强的粒子进行学习,重新构造生成新粒子。最后通过CEC2013中的10个基准测试函数与4种改进粒子群算法在不同维度下进行测试对比,实验结果验证了该算法在求解复杂函数时具有高效性,通过收敛性分析说明了算法的有效性。