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Differential evolution with individual-dependent and dynamic parameter adjustment

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Differential evolution (DE) is a powerful and versatile evolutionary algorithm for global optimization over continuous search space, whose performance is significantly influenced by its mutation operator and control parameters (population size, scaling factor and crossover rate). In order to enhance the performance of DE, we adopt a new variant of classic mutation operator, a gradual decrease rule for population size, an individual-dependent and dynamic strategy to generate the required values of scaling factor and crossover rate during the evolutionary process, respectively. In the proposed variant of DE (denoted by IDDE), the adopted mutation operator merges the superiority of two classic mutation operators (DE/best/2 and DE/rand/2) together, and the adjustment mechanism of control parameters applies the fitness value information of each individual and dynamic fluctuation rule, which can provide a better balance between the exploration ability and exploitation ability. To verify the performance of proposed IDDE, a suite of thirty benchmark functions is applied to conduct the simulation experiment. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed IDDE performs significantly better than five state-of-the-art DE variants and other two evolutionary algorithms.

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  1. College of Economic and Management, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China

    Gaoji Sun

  2. Institute of Uncertain Systems, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000, China

    Jin Peng

  3. Institute of Systems Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Ruiqing Zhao

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Sun, G., Peng, J. & Zhao, R. Differential evolution with individual-dependent and dynamic parameter adjustment. Soft Comput 22, 5747–5773 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-017-2626-3

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