Heuristic algorithms

Evolutionary Large-Scale Dynamic Optimization Using Bilevel Variable Grouping
Variable grouping provides an efficient approach to large-scale optimization, and multipopulation strategies are effective for both …
Hui Bai, Ran Cheng, Danial Yazdani, Kay Chen Tan, Yaochu Jin
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A Survey of Evolutionary Continuous Dynamic Optimization Over Two Decades—Part A
Many real-world optimization problems are dynamic. The field of dynamic optimization deals with such problems where the search space …
Danial Yazdani, Ran Cheng, Donya Yazdani, Jürgen Branke, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao
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A Survey of Evolutionary Continuous Dynamic Optimization Over Two Decades—Part B
This article presents the second Part of a two-Part survey that reviews evolutionary dynamic optimization (EDO) for single-objective …
Danial Yazdani, Ran Cheng, Donya Yazdani, Jürgen Branke, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao
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Benchmarking Continuous Dynamic Optimization: Survey and Generalized Test Suite
Dynamic changes are an important and inescapable aspect of many real-world optimization problems. Designing algorithms to find and …
Danial Yazdani, Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Ran Cheng, Jürgen Branke, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Xin Yao
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A Competitive Swarm Optimizer for Large Scale Optimization
In this paper, a novel competitive swarm optimizer (CSO) for large scale optimization is proposed. The algorithm is fundamentally …
Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin
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