Title
Differential Evolution With Composite Trial Vector Generation Strategies and Control Parameters
Abstract
Trial vector generation strategies and control parameters have a significant influence on the performance of differential evolution (DE). This paper studies whether the performance of DE can be improved by combining several effective trial vector generation strategies with some suitable control parameter settings. A novel method, called composite DE (CoDE), has been proposed in this paper. This method uses three trial vector generation strategies and three control parameter settings. It randomly combines them to generate trial vectors. CoDE has been tested on all the CEC2005 contest test instances. Experimental results show that CoDE is very competitive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/TEVC.2010.2087271
IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
trial vector,composite trial vector generation,evolutionary computation,novel method,composite de,global numerical optimization,control parameter,paper study,composite trial vector generation strategies,cec2005 contest test instance,trial vector generation strategy,differential evolution,effective trial vector generation,suitable control parameter setting,control parameters,vectors,control parameter setting,indexing terms,robustness,encoding,convergence,space exploration,optimization
Convergence (routing),Vector control,Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Evolutionary computation,Algorithm,Robustness (computer science),Differential evolution,Vector generation,Mathematics,Encoding (memory)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
1
1089-778X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
462
9.41
21
Authors
3
Search Limit
100462
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Wang192025.54
Zixing Cai2152566.96
Qingfu Zhang37634255.05