Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency

In recent years, although optimization algorithms are essential for solving complicated issues, they frequently struggle to find a balance between exploitation and exploration. Ineffective trade-offs may cause optimization to proceed slowly or to converge too soon. We suggest the Survivor Algorithm,...

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Main Author: Arif Yelği
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-09-01
Series:Ain Shams Engineering Journal
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description In recent years, although optimization algorithms are essential for solving complicated issues, they frequently struggle to find a balance between exploitation and exploration. Ineffective trade-offs may cause optimization to proceed slowly or to converge too soon. We suggest the Survivor Algorithm, a cutting-edge method that improves search robustness and efficiency, to address this. It ensures a more efficient search procedure across various optimization landscapes by constantly adjusting its exploration and exploitation tactics. The Survivor Optimizer’s primary features and contributions include a process that draws inspiration from survival-based reality shows and balances exploration and exploitation through team-based competition, eliminations, and rewards. Together with the best-set selection approach, this competitive feature seeks to preserve diversity and efficiently identify the best answers. It consistently outperforms current approaches in extensive assessments on five real-world optimization problems and the CEC2017 benchmark functions. The algorithm achieves better results, confirmed by Wilcoxon test.
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spelling doaj-art-0783bc921ded447d9adc2faa2fbe80822025-08-20T03:51:53ZengElsevierAin Shams Engineering Journal2090-44792025-09-0116910356110.1016/j.asej.2025.103561Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiencyArif Yelği0Corresponding author.; Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Topkapi University, Istanbul, TurkeyIn recent years, although optimization algorithms are essential for solving complicated issues, they frequently struggle to find a balance between exploitation and exploration. Ineffective trade-offs may cause optimization to proceed slowly or to converge too soon. We suggest the Survivor Algorithm, a cutting-edge method that improves search robustness and efficiency, to address this. It ensures a more efficient search procedure across various optimization landscapes by constantly adjusting its exploration and exploitation tactics. The Survivor Optimizer’s primary features and contributions include a process that draws inspiration from survival-based reality shows and balances exploration and exploitation through team-based competition, eliminations, and rewards. Together with the best-set selection approach, this competitive feature seeks to preserve diversity and efficiently identify the best answers. It consistently outperforms current approaches in extensive assessments on five real-world optimization problems and the CEC2017 benchmark functions. The algorithm achieves better results, confirmed by Wilcoxon test.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447925003028Survivor algorithmOptimizationMetaheuristicSwarm intelligence
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Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Survivor algorithm
Optimization
Metaheuristic
Swarm intelligence
title Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
title_full Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
title_fullStr Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
title_full_unstemmed Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
title_short Survivor optimizer: A competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
title_sort survivor optimizer a competitive strategy for enhanced search efficiency
topic Survivor algorithm
Optimization
Metaheuristic
Swarm intelligence
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447925003028
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