Resource allocation and dispensation impact of stochastic diffusion search on differential evolution algorithm

Abstract

This work details early research aimed at applying the powerful resource allocation mechanism deployed in Stochastic Diffusion Search (SDS) to the Differential Evolution (DE), effectively merging a nature inspired swarm intelligence algorithm with a biologically inspired evolutionary algorithm. The results reported herein suggest that the hybrid algorithm, exploiting information sharing between the population, has the potential to improve the optimisation capability of classical DE. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.