A HYDRID OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING CONSTRAINED ENGINEERING DESIGN PROBLEMS | ||
The International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Physics | ||
Article 10, Volume 7, International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Physics (ICMEP-7), May 2014, Pages 1-9 PDF (620.32 K) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/icmep.2014.29733 | ||
Author | ||
Elsayed M. Zaki | ||
Department of Basic Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering , Shebin El-Kom, Minoufia University, Egypt . | ||
Abstract | ||
Abstract - An algorithm called ACO-FA is proposed which incorporates concepts from ant colony optimization (ACO) and firefly algorithm (FA). The methodology of the proposed algorithm is introduced based on a refining mechanism of ACO and FA for updating the solutions of ACO-FA. Moreover, the evolutions of these solutions are performed by using feasibility rule that maintain the solutions with lower degrees of constraint violations. The proposed algorithm ACO-FA is tested on several benchmark functions. Numerical comparisons with different hybrid meta-heuristics demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency. | ||
Keywords | ||
Ant Colony Optimization; Firefly algorithm; constrained optimization | ||
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