Comparison Of Three Versions Of Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) On The Bbob Test Suite
Óscar Espinoza, Katya Rodríguez‐Vázquez, Carlos Hernández, Suemi Rodríguez‐Romo · 2023
This paper benchmarks the canonical version of Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) with two recent adaptations: "Enhanced WOA (E-WOA)" and "modified Symbiotic organism search - Differential Evolution - WOA (m-SDWOA)" with the desire to research the improvement potential of the WOA. We also used Black-Box Differential Evolution with normalization of the scaling factor (BBDE-N), included in the data set of the bbob test suite, as a baseline to compare the performance. The results show that E-WOA and m-SDWOA improve significantly efficiency and the percentage of problems hit by WOA.