Title: The great salmon run: a novel bio-inspired algorithm for artificial system design and optimisation

Authors: Ahmad Mozaffari; Alireza Fathi; Saeed Behzadipour

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology, P.O. Box 484, Iran. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology, P.O. Box 484, Iran. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-11155, Iran

Abstract: The major application of stochastic intelligent methods in optimisation, control and management of complex systems is transparent. Many researchers try to develop collective intelligent techniques and hybrid meta-heuristic models for improving the reliability of such optimisation algorithms. In this paper, a new optimisation method that is the simulation of 'the great salmon run' (TGSR) is developed. This simulation provides a powerful tool for optimising complex multi-dimensional and multi-modal problems. For demonstrating the high robustness and acceptable quality of TGSR, it is compared with most of the well-known proposed optimisation techniques such as parallel migrating genetic algorithm (PMGA), simulate annealing (SA), differential evolutionary algorithm (DEA), particle swarm optimisation (PSO), bee algorithm (BA), artificial bee colony (ABC), firefly algorithm (FA) and cuckoo search (CS). The obtained results confirm the predominance of the proposed method in both robustness and quality in different optimisation problems.

Keywords: TGSR optimisation; numerical optimisation; metaheuristics; bio-inspired computation; artificial system design; simulation; great salmon run.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2012.049889

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 2012 Vol.4 No.5, pp.286 - 301

Received: 29 Mar 2012
Accepted: 29 Jun 2012

Published online: 22 Sep 2014 *

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