A new collaborative evolutionary-swarm optimization technique

  • Authors:
  • Rodica Ioana Lung;D. Dumitrescu

  • Affiliations:
  • Babes-Bolyai University;Babes-Bolyai University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A new hybrid approach to optimization in dynamical environments called Collaborative Evolutionary-Swarm Optimization (CESO) is presented. CESO tracks moving optima in a dynamical environment by combining the search abilities of an evolutionary algorithm for multimodal optimization and a particle swarm optimization algorithm. A collaborative mechanism between the two methods is proposed by which the diversity provided by the multimodal technique is transmitted to the particle swarm in order to prevent its premature convergence. Numerical experiments indicate CESO as an efficient method compared with other evolutionary approaches.