Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours

This paper presents two novel bio-inspired particle swarm optimisation (PSO) variants, namely biased eavesdropping PSO (BEPSO) and altruistic heterogeneous PSO (AHPSO). These algorithms are inspired by types of group behaviour found in nature that have not previously been exploited in search algorit...

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Main Authors: Fevzi Tugrul Varna, Phil Husbands
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description This paper presents two novel bio-inspired particle swarm optimisation (PSO) variants, namely biased eavesdropping PSO (BEPSO) and altruistic heterogeneous PSO (AHPSO). These algorithms are inspired by types of group behaviour found in nature that have not previously been exploited in search algorithms. The primary search behaviour of the BEPSO algorithm is inspired by eavesdropping behaviour observed in nature coupled with a cognitive bias mechanism that enables particles to make decisions on cooperation. The second algorithm, AHPSO, conceptualises particles in the swarm as energy-driven agents with bio-inspired altruistic behaviour, which allows for the formation of lending–borrowing relationships. The mechanisms underlying these algorithms provide new approaches to maintaining swarm diversity, which contributes to the prevention of premature convergence. The new algorithms were tested on the 30, 50 and 100-dimensional CEC’13, CEC’14 and CEC’17 test suites and various constrained real-world optimisation problems, as well as against 13 well-known PSO variants, the CEC competition winner, differential evolution algorithm L-SHADE and the recent bio-inspired I-CPA metaheuristic. The experimental results show that both the BEPSO and AHPSO algorithms provide very competitive performance on the unconstrained test suites and the constrained real-world problems. On the CEC13 test suite, across all dimensions, both BEPSO and AHPSO performed statistically significantly better than 10 of the 15 comparator algorithms, while none of the remaining 5 algorithms performed significantly better than either BEPSO or AHPSO. On the CEC17 test suite, on the 50D and 100D problems, both BEPSO and AHPSO performed statistically significantly better than 11 of the 15 comparator algorithms, while none of the remaining 4 algorithms performed significantly better than either BEPSO or AHPSO. On the constrained problem set, in terms of mean rank across 30 runs on all problems, BEPSO was first, and AHPSO was third.
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spelling doaj-art-53838fccde3b449cbafa72aa4b7da2b82025-08-20T01:56:10ZengMDPI AGBiomimetics2313-76732024-09-019953810.3390/biomimetics9090538Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal BehavioursFevzi Tugrul Varna0Phil Husbands1AI Group, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, UKAI Group, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, UKThis paper presents two novel bio-inspired particle swarm optimisation (PSO) variants, namely biased eavesdropping PSO (BEPSO) and altruistic heterogeneous PSO (AHPSO). These algorithms are inspired by types of group behaviour found in nature that have not previously been exploited in search algorithms. The primary search behaviour of the BEPSO algorithm is inspired by eavesdropping behaviour observed in nature coupled with a cognitive bias mechanism that enables particles to make decisions on cooperation. The second algorithm, AHPSO, conceptualises particles in the swarm as energy-driven agents with bio-inspired altruistic behaviour, which allows for the formation of lending–borrowing relationships. The mechanisms underlying these algorithms provide new approaches to maintaining swarm diversity, which contributes to the prevention of premature convergence. The new algorithms were tested on the 30, 50 and 100-dimensional CEC’13, CEC’14 and CEC’17 test suites and various constrained real-world optimisation problems, as well as against 13 well-known PSO variants, the CEC competition winner, differential evolution algorithm L-SHADE and the recent bio-inspired I-CPA metaheuristic. The experimental results show that both the BEPSO and AHPSO algorithms provide very competitive performance on the unconstrained test suites and the constrained real-world problems. On the CEC13 test suite, across all dimensions, both BEPSO and AHPSO performed statistically significantly better than 10 of the 15 comparator algorithms, while none of the remaining 5 algorithms performed significantly better than either BEPSO or AHPSO. On the CEC17 test suite, on the 50D and 100D problems, both BEPSO and AHPSO performed statistically significantly better than 11 of the 15 comparator algorithms, while none of the remaining 4 algorithms performed significantly better than either BEPSO or AHPSO. On the constrained problem set, in terms of mean rank across 30 runs on all problems, BEPSO was first, and AHPSO was third.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/9/9/538bio-inspired search algorithmoptimisationparticle swarm optimisationswarm intelligencealtruismeavesdropping
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Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours
Biomimetics
bio-inspired search algorithm
optimisation
particle swarm optimisation
swarm intelligence
altruism
eavesdropping
title Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours
title_full Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours
title_fullStr Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours
title_full_unstemmed Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours
title_short Two New Bio-Inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours
title_sort two new bio inspired particle swarm optimisation algorithms for single objective continuous variable problems based on eavesdropping and altruistic animal behaviours
topic bio-inspired search algorithm
optimisation
particle swarm optimisation
swarm intelligence
altruism
eavesdropping
url https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/9/9/538
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