Archive analysis in SHADE

The aim of this research paper is to analyze the current optional archive in Success-History based Adaptive Differential Evolution (SHADE) which is used during mutation. The usefulness of the archive is analyzed on CEC 2015 benchmark set of test functions where the impact of successful archive use on final test function value is studied. This paper also proposes a new version of optional archive named Enhanced Archive (EA), which is also tested on CEC 2015 benchmark set and the results are compared with the canonical version. Two research questions are discussed: Whether SHADE with EA has better performance than canonical SHADE and whether it makes a better use of the archive. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.Grant Agency of the Czech Republic - GACR [P103/15/06700S]; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic within National Sustainability Programme [LO1303 (MSMT-7778/2014)]; European Regional Development Fund under Project CEBIA-Tech [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0089]; Internal Grant Agency of Tomas Bata University [IGA/CebiaTech/2017/004