Title
Death Mechanism-Based Moth-Flame Optimization With Improved Flame Generation Mechanism For Global Optimization Tasks
Abstract
Moth-Flame Optimization (MFO) algorithm is widely used to solve real parameter global optimization problems. However, the original MFO algorithm has some problems. First, the global search ability of the algorithm is insufficient due to the lack of high-quality flames or the lack of diversity of the population. Moreover, due to the reduction of the number of flames mechanism and the simple transverse orientation flight mode of moths, the algorithm is easy to fall into local optimum. To overcome these difficulties, a new MFO called ODSFMFO is proposed in this paper, which consists of an improved flame generation mechanism based on Opposition-Based Learning (OBL) and Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm, and an enhanced local search mechanism based on Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) and death mechanism. The ODSFMFO firstly obtains a high-quality population through opposition-based learning, then enhances the diversity of the population through differential evolution algorithm, to improve the global search ability of the algorithm, and then, employs an improved shuffled frog leaping algorithm as a local search algorithm, and uses the death mechanism to eliminate the individuals with low fitness value, which not only make the algorithm easy to jump out of the local optimum, but also further improve the convergence speed. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, the ODSFMFO and other fourteen well-known optimization algorithms are tested and compared on 28 benchmark tasks of CEC 2013 and 30 benchmark tasks of CEC 2017. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm obtains better results compared with other competitive algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115436
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Moth-flame optimization, Global optimization, Death mechanism, Shuffled frog leaping algorithm
Journal
183
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0957-4174
3
0.35
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhifu Li131.03
Junhai Zeng230.35
Yangquan Chen32257242.16
ma ge4305.54
Guiyun Liu5374.43