Wolf Pack Algorithm for Unconstrained Global Optimization

The wolf pack unites and cooperates closely to hunt for the prey in the Tibetan Plateau, which shows wonderful skills and amazing strategies. Inspired by their prey hunting behaviors and distribution mode, we abstracted three intelligent behaviors, scouting, calling, and besieging, and two intellige...

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Published in:Mathematical problems in engineering 2014-01, Vol.2014 (2014), p.1-17
Main Authors: Wu, Hu-Sheng, Zhang, Feng-Ming
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Algorithms
Animal behavior
Cognition & reasoning
Convergence
Distance measurement
Efficiency
Fish
Food
Foraging behavior
Functions (mathematics)
Genetic algorithms
Global optimization
Heuristic methods
Intelligence
Mathematical analysis
Particle swarm optimization
Process controls
Robustness
Search algorithms
Strategy
Swarm intelligence
Wolves
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Summary:The wolf pack unites and cooperates closely to hunt for the prey in the Tibetan Plateau, which shows wonderful skills and amazing strategies. Inspired by their prey hunting behaviors and distribution mode, we abstracted three intelligent behaviors, scouting, calling, and besieging, and two intelligent rules, winner-take-all generation rule of lead wolf and stronger-survive renewing rule of wolf pack. Then we proposed a new heuristic swarm intelligent method, named wolf pack algorithm (WPA). Experiments are conducted on a suit of benchmark functions with different characteristics, unimodal/multimodal, separable/nonseparable, and the impact of several distance measurements and parameters on WPA is discussed. What is more, the compared simulation experiments with other five typical intelligent algorithms, genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial fish swarm algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm, and firefly algorithm, show that WPA has better convergence and robustness, especially for high-dimensional functions.
ISSN:1024-123X
1563-5147
DOI:10.1155/2014/465082