An Improved Adaptive Niche Differential Evolution Algorithm

An Improved Genetic Algorithm Based on Adaptive Differential Evolution

In order to solve the premature convergence and improve the optimization ability of simple genetic algorithm (SGA) in the complex function optimization, an improved differential evolution based-genetic algorithm (DGA) is proposed in this paper. On the basis of the selection and crossover operation of SGA, the adaptive differential evolution operator is used as the main optimization method to re...

A Green Competitive Vehicle Routing Problem under Uncertainty Solved by an Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm

Regarding the development of distribution systems in the recent decades, fuel consumption of trucks has increased noticeably, which has a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, the reduction of fuel consumption has been one of the most important research areas in the last decades. The aim of this paper is to propose a robust mathematical model for a variant of a vehicle routi...

Developing Adaptive Differential Evolution as a New Evolutionary Algorithm, Application in Optimization of Chemical Processes

Yihui Zhou: an Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm for Power Optimization ..

Optimal reactive power dispatch of power systems is a complicated nonlinear combinatorial optimization problem. The Differential Evolution Algorithm (DEA) is an effective method to solve such problems. But DE still has some drawbacks like slow convergence speed and the parameters selection having a great effect on the algorithm performance. So a modified differential evolution is proposed in th...

An Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm for Multi-objective Optimization Problems

In this paper, an improved multi-objective differential evolution algorithm(IDEA) is proposed for multi-objective optimization problems. In IDEA, the select operator combines the advantages of DE with the mechanisms of Pareto-based ranking and distance density, besides, a randomly migration strategy is proposed. IDEA is implemented on four classical multi-objective problems, the simulation resu...