Novel binary biogeography-based optimization algorithm for the knapsack problem

  • Authors:
  • BiBingyan Zhao;Changshou Deng;Yanling Yang;Hu Peng

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Business, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China;School of Information Science and Technology, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China;School of Information Science and Technology, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China;School of Information Science and Technology, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China

  • Venue:
  • ICSI'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Mathematical models of biogeography inspired the development of the biogeography-based optimization algorithm. In this article we propose a binary version of biogeography-based optimization (BBO) for the Knapsack Problem. Two new mutation operators are proposed to extend the biogeography-based optimization algorithm to binary optimization problems. We also demonstrate the performance of the resulting new binary Biogeography-based optimization algorithm in solving four Knapsack problems and compare it with that of the standard Genetic Algorithm. The simulation results show that our new method is effective and efficient for the Knapsack problem.