Elite-leading fireworks algorithm

Abstract

Fireworks algorithm (FWA) is effective to solve optimization problems as a swarm intelligence algorithm. In this paper, the elite-leading fireworks algorithm (ELFWA) is proposed based on dynamic search in fireworks algorithm (dynFWA), which is an important improvement of FWA. In dynFWA firework is separated to two group: core-firework (CF) and non-core fireworks (non-CFs). This paper takes some beneficial information from non-CFs to reinforce the local search effect of CF. Random reinitialization and elite-leading operator are used to maintain the diversity of the non-CFs, which play an important role in global search. Based on the CEC2015 benchmark functions suite, ELFWA has a very competitive performance when comparing with state-of-the-art fireworks algorithms, such as dynFWA, dynFWACM and eddynFWA.