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Issue title: 18th RCRA International Workshop on “Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion”
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Milani, Alfredo; ; | Santucci, Valentino
Affiliations: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. E-mails: {milani, valentino.santucci}@dmi.unipg.it | Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Note: [] Corresponding author: Alfredo Milani, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. E-mail: milani@dmi.unipg.it.
Abstract: A novel optimization paradigm, called Community of Scientists Optimization (CoSO), is presented in this paper. The approach is inspired to the behaviour of a community of scientists interacting, pursuing for research results and foraging the funds needed to held their research activities. The CoSO metaphor can be applied to general optimization domains, where optimal solutions emerge from the collective behaviour of a distributed community of interacting autonomous entities. The CoSO framework presents analogies and remarkable differences with other evolutionary optimization approaches: swarm behaviour, foraging and selection mechanism based on research funds competition, dynamically evolving multicapacity communication channels realized by journals and evolving population size regulated by research management strategies. Experiments and comparisons on benchmark problems show the effectiveness of the approach for numerical optimization. CoSO, with the design of appropriate foraging and competition strategies, also represents a great potential as a general meta-heuristic for applications in non-numerical and agent-based domains.
Keywords: Evolutionary optimization, autonomy oriented optimization, numerical optimization
DOI: 10.3233/AIC-2012-0526
Journal: AI Communications, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 157-172, 2012
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