Cultural operators for a quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm applied to numerical optimization problems

Abstract

This work presents the application of cultural algorithms operators to a new quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm with numerical representation. These operators (fission, fusion, generalization and specialization) are used in order to provide better control over the quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm. We also show that the quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm with numerical representation behaves in a very similar manner to a pure cultural algorithm and we propose further investigations concerning this aspect. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.