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Modified Bat Algorithm Based on Lévy Flight and Opposition Based Learning
Joint Authors
Shan, Xian
Liu, Kang
Sun, Pei-Liang
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-11-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Bat Algorithm (BA) is a swarm intelligence algorithm which has been intensively applied to solve academic and real life optimization problems.
However, due to the lack of good balance between exploration and exploitation, BA sometimes fails at finding global optimum and is easily trapped into local optima.
In order to overcome the premature problem and improve the local searching ability of Bat Algorithm for optimization problems, we propose an improved BA called OBMLBA.
In the proposed algorithm, a modified search equation with more useful information from the search experiences is introduced to generate a candidate solution, and Lévy Flight random walk is incorporated with BA in order to avoid being trapped into local optima.
Furthermore, the concept of opposition based learning (OBL) is embedded to BA to enhance the diversity and convergence capability.
To evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, 16 benchmark functions have been employed.
The results obtained by the experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of OBMLBA for global optimization problems.
Comparisons with some other BA variants and other state-of-the-art algorithms have shown the proposed approach significantly improves the performance of BA.
Performances of the proposed algorithm on large scale optimization problems and real world optimization problems are not discussed in the paper, and it will be studied in the future work.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Shan, Xian& Liu, Kang& Sun, Pei-Liang. 2016. Modified Bat Algorithm Based on Lévy Flight and Opposition Based Learning. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1118376
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Shan, Xian…[et al.]. Modified Bat Algorithm Based on Lévy Flight and Opposition Based Learning. Scientific Programming No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1118376
American Medical Association (AMA)
Shan, Xian& Liu, Kang& Sun, Pei-Liang. Modified Bat Algorithm Based on Lévy Flight and Opposition Based Learning. Scientific Programming. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1118376
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1118376