An Analysis on Hybrid Brain Storm Optimisation Algorithms

Abstract

Optimisation can be described as the process of finding optimal values for the variables of a given problem in order to minimise or maximise one or more objective function(s). Brain storm optimisation (BSO) algorithm is relatively new swarm intelligence algorithm that mimics the brainstorming process in which a group of people solves a problem together. The aim of this paper is to present hybrid BSO algorithm solutions in general, and particularly: (i) a hybrid BSO for improving the performances of the original BSO algorithm; (ii) a hybrid BSO for the flexible job-shop scheduling problem; and (iii) a feature selection by a hybrid BSO algorithm for the COVID-19 classification. The hybrid BSO algorithm overcomes the lack of exploitation in the original BSO algorithm, and simultaneously, the obtained better results prove their efficiency and robustness.