Title: Improving the JADE algorithm by clustering successful parameters

Authors: Zhijian Li; Jinglei Guo; Shengxiang Yang

Addresses: School of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China ' School of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China ' Centre for Computational Intelligence (CCI), School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort Univesity, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK

Abstract: Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most powerful and popular evolutionary algorithms for real parameter global optimisation problems. However, the performance of DE highly depends on the selection of control parameters, e.g. the population size, scaling factor and crossover rate. How to set these parameters is a challenging task because they are problem dependent. In order to tackle this problem, a JADE variant, denoted CJADE, is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, the successful parameters are clustered with the k-means clustering algorithm to reduce the impact of poor parameters. Simulation results show that CJADE is better than, or at least comparable to, several state-of-the-art DE algorithms.

Keywords: differential evolution; k-means clustering; successful parameters; JADE algorithm; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2016.081159

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2016 Vol.11 No.3, pp.190 - 197

Received: 28 Jun 2016
Accepted: 01 Sep 2016
Published online: 24 Dec 2016 *

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