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Locating wells is an important step in oil exploitation. This paper proposes a novel approach, which first combines particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and a reservoir simulation evaluation tool to optimize the locations of vertical wells. Simulation results show that the convergence efficiency of our approach outperforms traditional genetic algorithm and overcomes the disadvantage of particle swarm algorithm that would be easily trapped into best-at-local solution so that its optimization result has been significantly improved.

Gene expression programming (GEP), improved genetic programming (GP), has become a popular tool for data mining. However, like other evolutionary algorithms, it tends to suffer from premature convergence and slow convergence rate when solving complex problems. In this paper, we propose an enhanced GEP algorithm, called CTSGEP, which is inspired by the principle of minimal free energy in thermodynamics. In CTSGEP, it employs a component thermodynamical selection (CTS) operator to quantitatively keep a balance between the selective pressure and the population diversity during the evolution process. Experiments are conducted on several benchmark datasets from the UCI machine learning repository. The results show that the performance of CTSGEP is better than the conventional GEP and some GEP variations.

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