Two algorithmic enhancements for the parallel differential evolution
International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications
Self-adaptive mutation in the differential evolution
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Ockham's Razor in memetic computing: Three stage optimal memetic exploration
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Biological invasion-inspired migration in distributed evolutionary algorithms
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Parallel migration model employing various adaptive variants of differential evolution
SIDE'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
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Applied Soft Computing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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EA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial Evolution
Differential evolution with a relational neighbourhood-based strategy for numerical optimization
SEMCCO'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing
Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution for model-based object detection
Applied Soft Computing
Adaptive Memetic Differential Evolution with Global and Local neighborhood-based mutation operators
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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This article proposes a distributed differential evolution which employs a novel self-adaptive scheme, namely scale factor inheritance. In the proposed algorithm, the population is distributed over several sub-populations allocated according to a ring topology. Each sub-population is characterized by its own scale factor value. With a probabilistic criterion, that individual displaying the best performance is migrated to the neighbor population and replaces a pseudo-randomly selected individual of the target sub-population. The target sub-population inherits not only this individual but also the scale factor if it seems promising at the current stage of evolution. In addition, a perturbation mechanism enhances the exploration feature of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm has been run on a set of various test problems and then compared to two sequential differential evolution algorithms and three distributed differential evolution algorithms recently proposed in literature and representing state-of-the-art in the field. Numerical results show that the proposed approach seems very efficient for most of the analyzed problems, and outperforms all other algorithms considered in this study.