Optimization of complex mathematical functions using a novel implementation of intelligent water drops algorithm

Abstract

The intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm was introduced by Hamed Shah Hosseini in 2007, which has been used to solve some of the discrete optimization problems. This chapter introduces a simplified version of the basic IWD algorithm and uses it to find the global minimum of some of the complex mathematical functions. The parameter settings have a very important role in the efficiency of the algorithm. The results demonstrated that the simplified IWD algorithm gave better results as compared to other techniques in less number of iterations.