Journal
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 39, Issue 12, Pages 3293-3304Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.04.012
Keywords
Biogeography-based optimization; Constrained optimization; Selection procedure
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Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) has been recently proposed as a viable stochastic optimization algorithm and it has so far been successfully applied in a variety of fields, especially for, unconstrained optimization problems. The present paper shows how BBO can be applied for constrained optimization problems, where the objective is to find a solution for a given objective function, subject to both inequality and equality constraints. To solve such problems, the present work proposes three new variations of BBO. Each new version uses different update strategies, and each is tested on several benchmark functions. A successful implementation of an additional selection procedure is also proposed in this work which is based on the feasibility-based rule to preserve fitter individuals for subsequent generations. Our extensive experimentations successfully demonstrate the usefulness of all these modifications proposed for the BBO algorithm that can be suitably applied for solving different types of constrained optimization problems. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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