Citation
Muelas Pascual, Santiago and Peña Sanchez, Jose Maria and LaTorre de la Fuente, Antonio and Robles Forcada, Víctor
(2010).
A new initialization procedure for the distributed estimation of distribution algorithms.
"Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications", v. 15
(n. 4);
pp. 713-720.
ISSN 1432-7643.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-010-0603-1.
Abstract
Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) are one of the most promising paradigms in today’s evolutionary computation. In this field, there has been an incipient activity in the so-called parallel estimation of distribution algorithms (pEDAs). One of these approaches is the distributed estimation of distribution algorithms (dEDAs). This paper introduces a new initialization mechanism for each of the populations of the islands based on the Voronoi cells. To analyze the results, a series of different experiments using the benchmark suite for the special session on Real-parameter Optimization of the IEEE CEC 2005 conference has been carried out. The results obtained suggest that the Voronoi initialization method considerably improves the performance obtained from a traditional uniform initialization.
