Imperialist competitive algorithm with trading mechanism for optimization

Shuaiqun Wang, Aorigele, Jingyi Luo, Shangce Gao

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Abstract

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across different countries. Trading has been explored by economists to be an important mechanism for maintaining development. In an imperialistic country, trading makes imperialists capture resources from colonies, meanwhile providing technologies or cultures for colonies to develop themselves. Inspired by this economic phenomenon, this paper transplants the trading mechanism to imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) and proposes an improved ICA with import and export mechanisms (IICA). IICA is designed to alleviate the problem of slow convergence without significantly impairing the parallel competitive feature of ICA. It is characterized by allowing the imperialist to capture useful aspects of colonies to enhance itself, and meanwhile making colonies learn advanced components from their imperialist. In this way, the trading mechanism enables imperialists and colonies to strengthen interactions during them. The performance of IICA is validated on 23 benchmark functions. Its high performance is confirmed by comparing with other ICA variants.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Intelligence, Networked Systems and Their Applications - International Conference of Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2014 and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2014, Proceedings
EditorsMinrui Fei, Yang Song, Chen Peng, Zhou Su, Zhou Su, Yang Song, Qinglong Han
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages87-98
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9783662452608
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume462
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

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