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Imperialist Competitive Algorithm

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In this chapter, we present a new optimization algorithm called imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) which is inspired by the human socio-political evolution process. We first describe the general knowledge of the imperialism in Sect. 15.1. Then, the fundamentals and performance of ICA are introduced in Sect. 15.2. Finally, Sect. 15.3 summarises this chapter.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Bo Xing

  2. Department of New Product Development, Meiyuan Mould Design and Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Xianghe, People’s Republic of China

    Wen-Jing Gao

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Xing, B., Gao, WJ. (2014). Imperialist Competitive Algorithm. In: Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 62. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03404-1_15

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