The Real-Life Application of Differential Evolution with a Distance-Based Mutation-Selection

Petr Bujok
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Petr Bujok: Department of Informatics and Computers, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 30. Dubna 22, 70103 Ostrava, Czech Republic

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 16, 1-15

Abstract: This paper proposes the real-world application of the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm using, distance-based mutation-selection, population size adaptation, and an archive for solutions (DEDMNA). This simple framework uses three widely-used mutation types with the application of binomial crossover. For each solution, the most proper position prior to evaluation is selected using the Euclidean distances of three newly generated positions. Moreover, an efficient linear population-size reduction mechanism is employed. Furthermore, an archive of older efficient solutions is used. The DEDMNA algorithm is applied to three real-life engineering problems and 13 constrained problems. Seven well-known state-of-the-art DE algorithms are used to compare the efficiency of DEDMNA. The performance of DEDMNA and other algorithms are comparatively assessed using statistical methods. The results obtained show that DEDMNA is a very comparable optimiser compared to the best performing DE variants. The simple idea of measuring the distance of the mutant solutions increases the performance of DE significantly.

Keywords: differential evolution; distance-based; mutation-selection; real application; experimental study; global optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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