Title
Heap-based optimizer inspired by corporate rank hierarchy for global optimization
Abstract
•Heap-based optimizer (HBO) inspired by corporate rank hierarchy (CRH) is proposed.•HBO utilizes heap to map the hierarchy and model equations for 3 CRH activities.•A parameter (γ) to escape local optima without lacking exploitation is introduced.•Exploration and exploitation are balanced through self-adaptive parameters.•Performance is evaluated on 97 benchmarks and 3 mechanical engineering problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113702
Expert Systems with Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Social optimization algorithm,Corporate hierarchy based optimization,Nature-inspired meta-heuristic,Global optimization algorithm
Journal
161
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0957-4174
11
0.48
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qamar Askari1232.35
Mehreen Saeed2877.32
Irfan Younas3264.72