Hybridising plant propagation and local search for uncapacitated exam scheduling problems

Cheraitia, Meryem; Haddadi, Salim; Salhi, Abdellah

doi:10.1504/ijsom.2019.10020831

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“…For recent advances in DE, the readers are referred to [16,17]. EAs suit a variety of applications in the fields of engineering and science [18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Generally, EAs outperform traditional optimization algorithms for problems which are not continuous, non-differentiable, multi-modal, noisy and not well-defined.…”

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On the Efficacy of Ensemble of Constraint Handling Techniques in Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution

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Self-adaptive variants of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) tune their parameters on the go by learning from the search history. Adaptive differential evolution with optional external archive (JADE) and self-adaptive differential evolution (SaDE) are two well-known self-adaptive versions of differential evolution (DE). They are both unconstrained search and optimization algorithms. However, if some constraint handling techniques (CHTs) are incorporated in their frameworks, then they can be used to solve constrained optimization problems (COPs). In an early work, an ensemble of constraint handling techniques (ECHT) is probabilistically hybridized with the basic version of DE. The ECHT consists of four different CHTs: superiority of feasible solutions, self-adaptive penalty, ε -constraint handling technique and stochastic ranking. This paper employs ECHT in the selection schemes, where offspring competes with their parents for survival to the next generation, of JADE and SaDE. As a result, JADE-ECHT and SaDE-ECHT are developed, which are the constrained variants of JADE and SaDE. Both algorithms are tested on 24 COPs and the experimental results are collected and compared according to algorithms’ evaluation criteria of CEC’06. Their comparison, in terms of feasibility rate (FR) and success rate (SR), shows that SaDE-ECHT surpasses JADE-ECHT in terms of FR, while JADE-ECHT outperforms SaDE-ECHT in terms of SR.

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