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Evolution Strategy (ES) is the first and oldest evolutionary algorithm, and it is based on the adaptation and evolution. Specially, the main concept used to describe how Evolution Strategy works, is the Evolution of Evolution. In fact, evolution strategy is a family of related algorithms, and because of this, the plural name Evolution Strategies is also widely used, in the ...

Differential Evolution (DE) is an evolutionary algorithm, which uses the difference of solution vectors to create new candidate solutions. The key points, in the usage of population differences in proposition of new solutions, are: The distribution of population and its orientation is hidden in the differences of population members. According to the Central Limit Theorem, as the population size increases, ...

Simulated Annealing (SA) is a metaheuristic, inspired by annealing process. SA starts with an initial solution at higher temperature, where the changes are accepted with higher probability. So the exploration capability of the algorithm is high and the search space can be explored widely. As the algorithm continues to run, the temperature decreases gradually, like the annealing process, and the ...

Like Apriori algorithm, FP-Growth is an association rule mining approach. The term FP in the name of this approach, is abbreviation of Frequent Pattern. FP-Growth uses a frequent pattern mining technique to build a tree of frequent patterns (FP-Tree), which can be used to extract association rules. Compared to Apriori, the FP-Growth approach is more efficient and it has better ...

One of the classic approaches to deal with multi-objective optimization problems, is decomposition, which means that a multi-objective is decomposed to several (theoretically infinite) single-objective optimization problems. Decomposed objective functions, can be defined using several methods, like weighted sum of objectives and distance (or norm) of difference vector of objectives and a predefined ideal point in the objective space. However, ...

Harmony Search (HS) is a global optimization algorithm which inspired by harmony improvisation process of musicians, proposed by Zong Woo Geem in 2001. Every solution in this algorithm is called a Harmony and there is an archive of promising solutions, called Harmony Memory (HM). For more information on Harmony Search, you can read the related article in Wikipedia (here). At ...

Association Rule Mining is a common task in the field of Data Mining, involving the recognition of frequent patterns, usually in transactional databases. For example, discovering a rule like {bread, butter} → {milk} in a sales dataset is a result of association rule mining, and indicates that if a customer buys bread and butter, it is likely that they will buy ...

Pareto Envelope-based Selection Algorithm II (PESA-II) is a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm, which uses the mechanism of genetic algorithm together with selection based on Pareto envelope. PESA-II uses an external archive to store the approximate Pareto solutions. Parents and mutants are selected from this external archive, based on the grids created based on the geographical distribution of archive members. This ...

Teaching-Learning-based Optimization (TLBO) is a metaheuristic, inspired by process of Teaching and Learning, via a simplified mathematical model of knowledge improvements gained by students in a class. This algorithm is proposed by Rao, Savsani and Vakharia in 2011, in this paper. In this post, we are going to share with you, the open-source MATLAB implementation of Teaching-Learning-based Optimization (TLBO) algorithm. ...

Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE-UA) is a metaheuristic for global optimization, proposed by Duan, Gupta and Sorooshian, in 1992. Because SCE is the abbreviated name of other methods in the science, the UA is added to the abbreviated name of this algorithm, because the creators of this algorithm are members of University of Arizona. In SCE-UA, the population is divided into ...