XU Bin, TAO Lili, CHENG Wushan. A self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm with multiple strategies and its application[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (12): 5190-5198.
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XU Bin, TAO Lili, CHENG Wushan. A self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm with multiple strategies and its application[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (12): 5190-5198.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20161273.
A self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm with multiple strategies and its application
A self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm with multiple strategies(SMDE) was proposed to overcome premature or localized optimization of differential evolution(DE) as a result of fixed parameter settings. Based on basic framework of classical DE
the first step in SMDE was to create a candidate set of mutation strategy
scale factor(F) and crossover rate(CR). In the followed searching process
mutation strategy
F and CR for each individual variable in next evolutionary generation were determined self-adaptively from the corresponding candidate set according to knowledge learnt from previous searches
so that proper mutation strategies and control parameters could be set at various evolution stages. Compared to other famous DE variants on optimizing 10 routine standard testing problems
SMDE had better search precision and faster convergence rate. Moreover
study on estimation of uncertain parameters in dynamic process systems of chemical engineering showed that SMDE could effectively solve engineering optimization challenges.