Testing united multi-operator evolutionary algorithms-II on single objective optimization problems
Saber Mohammed Elsayed, Noha M. Hamza, Ruhul Amin Sarker · 2016
Over the past few years, the success of multi-operator and multi-method algorithms encouraged researchers to combine them within a single framework. Although these algorithms have shown promising results, there are still rooms for further improvements. In this paper, we propose a new way of combining multiple evolutionary algorithms, each of which may run with multiple search operators. In its process, the algorithm gradually places emphasis on the better-performing multi-operator algorithm, as well as its own search operators. Such a process is designed based on the quality of solutions produced and diversity of the population. The proposed algorithm is assessed on the CEC2016 competition problems on single objective realparameter optimization, with the results demonstrating its ability to attain better results than those of state-of-the-art algorithms.