Title: An enhanced search strategy for firefly algorithm

Authors: Wenjun Wang

Addresses: School of Business Administration, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang 330099, China

Abstract: The Firefly Algorithm (FA) is a recently proposed meta-heuristic which is inspired by the social behaviour of fireflies. Though FA has shown good performance on many optimisation problems, it easily falls into local optima in solving complex optimisation problems. To tackle this issue, this paper presents a new FA variant by employing an enhanced search strategy. Experiments are carried out on ten well-known benchmark functions. Computational results show that the proposed approach outperforms the standard FA and some recently published FA variants.

Keywords: firefly algorithm; enhanced search strategy; global optimisation; numerical optimisation; metaheuristics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2016.079442

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2016 Vol.11 No.1, pp.62 - 67

Received: 11 Mar 2016
Accepted: 31 Mar 2016

Published online: 28 Sep 2016 *

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