@article{10902/35082,
year = {2023},
month = {8},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/35082},
abstract = {The results of evolutionary algorithms depend on population diversity that normally decreases by increasing the selection pressure from generation to generation. Usually, this can lead the evolution process to get stuck in local optima. This study is focused on mechanisms to avoid this undesired phenomenon by introducing parallel self-adapted differential evolution that decomposes a monolithic population into more variable-sized sub-populations and combining this with the characteristics of evolutionary multi-agent systems into a hybrid algorithm. The proposed hybrid algorithm operates with individuals having some characteristics of agents, e.g. they act autonomously by selecting actions, with which they affect the state of the environment. Additionally, this algorithm incorporates two additional mechanisms: ageing and adaptive population growth, which help the individuals by decision-making. The proposed parallel differential evolution was applied to the CEC’18 benchmark function suite, while the produced results were compared with some traditional stochastic nature-inspired population-based and state-of-the-art algorithms.},
organization = {Iztok Fister is grateful for the _nancial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (Research Core Funding No. P2-0042 - Digital twin). Iztok Fister Jr. is grateful for the _nancial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (Research Core Funding No. P2-0057). Andres Iglesias and Akemi Galvez thank the Computer Science National Program of the Spanish Research Agency and European Funds, Project #TIN2017-89275-R. (AEI/FEDER, UE), and the PDE-GIR project of the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Grant Agreement #778035.},
publisher = {Oxford},
publisher = {Logic Journal of the IGPL, 2023, 31(4), 701-721},
title = {Design and implementation of parallel self-adaptive differential evolution for global optimization},
author = {Fister, Iztok and Iglesias Prieto, Andrés and Gálvez Tomida, Akemi and Fister, DuŠan and Fister, Iztok, Jr.},
}