Title
Distributed Cooperative Co-evolution with Adaptive Computing Resource Allocation for Large Scale Optimization
Abstract
Through introducing the divide-and-conquer strategy, cooperative co-evolution (CC) has been successfully employed by many evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to solve large-scale optimization problems. In practice, it is common that different subcomponents of a large-scale problem have imbalanced contributions to the global fitness. Thus, how to utilize such imbalance and concentrate efforts on optimizing important subcomponents becomes an important issue for improving performance of cooperative co-EA, especially in distributed computing environment. In this paper, we propose a two-layer distributed CC (dCC) architecture with adaptive computing resource allocation for large-scale optimization. The first layer is the dCC model which takes charge of calculating the importance of subcomponents and accordingly allocating resources. An effective allocating algorithm is designed which can adaptively allocate computing resources based on a periodic contribution calculating method. The second layer is the pool model which takes charge of making fully utilization of imbalanced resource allocation. Within this layer, two different conformance policies are designed to help optimizers use the assigned computing resources efficiently. Empirical studies show that the two conformance policies and the computing resource allocation algorithm are effective, and the proposed distributed architecture possesses high scalability and efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tevc.2018.2817889
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Optimization,Sociology,Statistics,Program processors,Computational modeling,Resource management,Adaptation models
Resource management,Architecture,Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Distributed Computing Environment,Resource allocation,Optimization problem,Empirical research,Mathematics,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
2
1089-778X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.40
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ya-Hui Jia150.40
Wei-Neng Chen214313.16
Tianlong Gu347146.73
Huaxiang Zhang443656.32
Huaqiang Yuan510711.47
Sam Kwong64590315.78
Jun Zhang72491127.27