IPO: An Inclined Planes System Optimization Algorithm

In the last decades, heuristic algorithms are widely used in solving problems in different fields of science and engineering. Most of these methods are inspired by natural phenomena, such as biological behaviours or physical principles. In this paper, a new optimization method based on the dynamic of sliding motion along a frictionless inclined plane is introduced. In the proposed algorithm, a collection of agents cooperate with each other and move toward better positions in the search space by employing Newton's second law and equations of motion. Our method is compared with other popular optimization algorithms and the results on 23 standard benchmark functions show its effectiveness in most cases

UNSUPERVISED DATA AND HISTOGRAM CLUSTERING USING INCLINED PLANES SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM

Within the last decades, clustering has gained significant recognition as one of the data mining methods, especially in the relatively new field of medical engineering for diagnosing cancer. Clustering is used as a database to automatically group items with similar characteristics. Researchers aim to introduce a novel and powerful algorithm known as Inclined Planes system Optimization (IPO), with capacity to overcome clustering problems. The proposed method identifies each agent used in the algorithm to indicate the centroids of the clusters and automatically select the number of centroids in each time interval (unsupervised clustering). The evaluation method for clustering is based on the Davies Bouldin index (DBi) to show cluster validity. Researchers compare known algorithm on series of data bases from various studies to demonstrate the power and capability of the proposed method. These datasets are popular for pattern recognition with diversity in space dimension. Method performance was tested on standard images as a dataset. Study results show significant method advantage over other algorithms. </p