An approach to continuous optimization by the Intelligent Water Drops algorithm
Hamed Shah Hosseini · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · 2012
In this paper, the Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) algorithm is augmented with a mutation-based local search to find the optimal values of numerical functions. The proposed algorithm called the IWD-CO (IWD for continuous optimization) is tested with six different benchmark functions. The experimental results are satisfactory, which encourage further researches in this regard.