Novel mixed-strategy evolutionary programming algorithm
Ruidong Zhao · Computer Engineering and Applications Journal · 2007
Evolutionary programming has been applied with success to many numerical and combinatorial optimization problems.But algorithms with one single mutation operator often have the problem that they perform well when deal with these problems,but poor with others.In this paper,we propose an improved evolutionary programming using a mixed strategy based on Gaussion mutation and single-point mutation,which is named SPCEP.In SPCEP,each of the two mutation operators will generate one offspring.Then a compare will be conducted between them,and the best one will be chosen.Simulation results show that SPCEP is obviously superior to classical CEP and SPMEP for high-dimensional functions.