Adaptive multimodal continuous ant colony optimization

Seeking multiple optima simultaneously, which multimodal optimization aims at, has attracted increasing attention but remains challenging. Taking advantage of ant colony optimization algorithms in preserving high diversity, this paper intends to extend ant colony optimization algorithms to deal with multimodal optimization. First, combined with current niching methods, an adaptive multimodal continuous ant colony optimization algorithm is introduced. In this algorithm, an adaptive parameter adjustment is developed, which takes the difference among niches into consideration. Second, to accelerate convergence, a differential evolution mutation operator is alternatively utilized to build base vectors for ants to construct new solutions. Then, to enhance the exploitation, a local search scheme based on Gaussian distribution is self-adaptively performed around the seeds of niches. Together, the proposed algorithm affords a good balance between exploration and exploitation. Extensive experiments on 20 widely used benchmark multimodal functions are conducted to investigate the influence of each algorithmic component and results are compared with several state-of-the-art multimodal algorithms and winners of competitions on multimodal optimization. These comparisons demonstrate the competitive efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, especially in dealing with complex problems with high numbers of local optima

Reactive scheduling in collaborative supply chain: A literature review

En este trabajo se pretende hacer una revisión de la literatura sobre reprogramación de la producción en cadenas de suministro colaborativas, a través de una investigación exhaustiva y análisis Cienciométrico para identificar el comportamiento de las publicaciones en los últimos años, que permita identificar los autores, áreas de conocimiento, países e instituciones más desatacados en el área. Finalmente, se presentan líneas de investigación con mayor tendencia para desarrollar nuevas investigaciones que contribuyan a la literatura y o mejorar las existentes.This paper aims to review the literature on the reprogramming of production in collaborative supply chains, through a thorough investigation and Scientometric analysis to identify the behavior of publications in recent years, which allow the identification of authors, areas Of the knowledge, countries and institutions most unrelated in the area. Finally, research lines are presented with a greater tendency for new research that contributes to the literature and the improvement of stocks

Evolutionary Computation 2020

Intelligent optimization is based on the mechanism of computational intelligence to refine a suitable feature model, design an effective optimization algorithm, and then to obtain an optimal or satisfactory solution to a complex problem. Intelligent algorithms are key tools to ensure global optimization quality, fast optimization efficiency and robust optimization performance. Intelligent optimization algorithms have been studied by many researchers, leading to improvements in the performance of algorithms such as the evolutionary algorithm, whale optimization algorithm, differential evolution algorithm, and particle swarm optimization. Studies in this arena have also resulted in breakthroughs in solving complex problems including the green shop scheduling problem, the severe nonlinear problem in one-dimensional geodesic electromagnetic inversion, error and bug finding problem in software, the 0-1 backpack problem, traveler problem, and logistics distribution center siting problem. The editors are confident that this book can open a new avenue for further improvement and discoveries in the area of intelligent algorithms. The book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in understanding the principles and design of intelligent algorithms

Solving dynamic multi-objective problems with an evolutionary multi-directional search approach

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.The challenge of solving dynamic multi-objective optimization problems is to effectively and efficiently trace the varying Pareto optimal front and/or Pareto optimal set. To this end, this paper proposes a multi-direction search strategy, aimed at finding the dynamic Pareto optimal front and/or Pareto optimal set as quickly and accurately as possible before the next environmental change occurs. The proposed method adopts a multi-directional search approach which mainly includes two parts: an improved local search and a global search. The first part uses individuals from the current population to produce solutions along each decision variable’s direction within a certain range and updates the population using the generated solutions. As a result, the first strategy enhances the convergence of the population. In part two, individuals are generated in a specific random method along every dimension’s orientation in the decision variable space, so as to achieve good diversity as well as guarantee the avoidance of local optimal solutions. The proposed algorithm is measured on several benchmark test suites with various dynamic characteristics and different difficulties. Experimental results show that this algorithm is very competitive in dealing with dynamic multi-objective optimization problems when compared with four state-of-the-art approaches

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization using neural-based estimation of distribution algorithms

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Adaptive Heterogeneous Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm

Optimization problems is a class of problems where the goal is to make a system as effective as possible. The goal of this research area is to design an algorithm to solve optimization problems effectively and efficiently. Being effective means that the algorithm should be able to find the optimal solution (or near optimal solutions), while efficiency refers to the computational effort required by the algorithm to find an optimal solution. In other words, an optimization algorithm should be able to find the optimal solution in an acceptable time. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation is to come up with a new algorithm which presents an effective as well as efficient performance. There are various kinds of algorithms proposed to deal with optimization problems. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is a subset of population-based methods which are successfully applied to solve optimization problems. In this dissertation the area of evolutionary methods and specially Cultural Algorithms (CAs) are investigated. The results of this investigation reveal that there are some room for improving the existing EAs. Consequently, a number of EAs are proposed to deal with different optimization problems. The proposed EAs offer better performance compared to the state-of-the-art methods. The main contribution of this dissertation is to introduce a new architecture for optimization algorithms which is called Heterogeneous Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm (HMP-CA). The new architecture first incorporates a decomposition technique to divide the given problem into a number of sub-problems, and then it assigns the sub-problems to different local CAs to be optimized separately in parallel. In order to evaluate the proposed architecture, it is applied on numerical optimization problems. The evaluation results reveal that HMP-CA is fully effective such that it can find the optimal solution for every single run. Furthermore, HMP-CA outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by offering a more efficient performance. The proposed HMP-CA is further improved by incorporating an adaptive decomposition technique. The improved version which is called Adaptive HMP-CA (A-HMP-CA) is evaluated over large scale global optimization problems. The results of this evaluation show that HMP-CA significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency

A comprehensive survey on cultural algorithms

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Monte Carlo Method with Heuristic Adjustment for Irregularly Shaped Food Product Volume Measurement

Volume measurement plays an important role in the production and processing of food products. Various methods have been proposed to measure the volume of food products with irregular shapes based on 3D reconstruction. However, 3D reconstruction comes with a high-priced computational cost. Furthermore, some of the volume measurement methods based on 3D reconstruction have a low accuracy. Another method for measuring volume of objects uses Monte Carlo method. Monte Carlo method performs volume measurements using random points. Monte Carlo method only requires information regarding whether random points fall inside or outside an object and does not require a 3D reconstruction. This paper proposes volume measurement using a computer vision system for irregularly shaped food products without 3D reconstruction based on Monte Carlo method with heuristic adjustment. Five images of food product were captured using five cameras and processed to produce binary images. Monte Carlo integration with heuristic adjustment was performed to measure the volume based on the information extracted from binary images. The experimental results show that the proposed method provided high accuracy and precision compared to the water displacement method. In addition, the proposed method is more accurate and faster than the space carving method

EVOLUTIONARY MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION IN STATIC AND DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH