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Differential evolution has been proved to be one of the most powerful evolutionary algorithms for the numerical optimization. However, the performance of differential evolution is significantly influenced by its parameter settings. To remedy this limitation, different parameter adaptation techniques are proposed in the literature. Generally, different parameter adaptation techniques have different rationales and may be suitable to different problems. Based on this consideration, in this paper, we attempt to develop the ensemble of different parameter adaptation techniques to enhance the performance of differential evolution. In our proposed method, different parameter adaptation techniques are combined together to adjust the parameters of different solutions in the population. As an illustration, two parameter adaptation techniques proposed in the literature are used in our proposed method. To verify the performance of our proposal, the functions proposed in CEC 2005 are chosen as the test suite. Experimental results indicate that, on the whole, our proposed method is able to provide better results than the single parameter adaptation based differential evolution variants with respect to the non-parametric statistical tests.
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Note that, in this work, the non-parametric statistical tests are calculated by the KEEL software [15], which is available online at http://www.keel.es/.
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Wang, L., Gong, W. (2016). Ensemble of Different Parameter Adaptation Techniques in Differential Evolution. In: Gong, M., Pan, L., Song, T., Zhang, G. (eds) Bio-inspired Computing – Theories and Applications. BIC-TA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 682. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3614-9_9
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