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The discovery of population interaction with a power law distribution in brain storm optimization

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Brain storm optimization (BSO) is a novel evolutionary algorithm which originates from the human brainstorming process. The successful applications of BSO on various problems demonstrate its validity and efficiency. To theoretically analyze the performance of algorithm from the viewpoint of population evolution, the population interaction network (PIN) is used to construct the relationship among individuals in BSO. Four experiments in different dimensions, parameters, combinatorial parameter settings and related algorithms are implemented, respectively. The experimental results indicate the frequency of average degree of BSO meets a power law distribution in the functions with low dimension, which shows the best performance of algorithm among three kinds of dimensions. The parameters of BSO are investigated to find the influence of the population interaction with the power law distribution on the performance of algorithm, and respective parameter can change the relationship among individuals. In addition, the mutual effect among parameters is analyzed to find the best combinatorial result to significantly enhance the performance of BSO. The contrast among BSO, DE and PSO demonstrates a power law distribution is more effective for boosting the population interaction to enhance the performance of algorithm.

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This research was partially supported by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17K12751.

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    Yirui Wang, Shangce Gao, Yang Yu & Zhe Xu

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Wang, Y., Gao, S., Yu, Y. et al. The discovery of population interaction with a power law distribution in brain storm optimization. Memetic Comp. 11, 65–87 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12293-017-0248-z

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