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Spherical search optimizer: a simple yet efficient meta-heuristic approach

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In these years, more meta-heuristic approaches have been proposed inspired by nature. However, the search mode has not been researched deeply. In this paper, we find that search style and individual selection mechanism for interaction are the core problems for a meta-heuristic algorithm. In particular, we focus on search style and have studied the principle of basic hypercube search style and basic reduced hypercube search style. Inspired by them, we propose a spherical search style. Furthermore, we design a spherical search optimizer by the spherical search style and tournament selection method. And then, theoretical analysis of it is provided. To validate the performance of the proposed method, we compare our approach against nine state-of-the-art algorithms. The CEC2013, CEC2014, CEC2015 and CEC2017 suites and the data clustering optimization problem in the real world are used. Experimental results and analysis verify that it is a simple yet efficient method to solve continuous optimization problems.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Guang Dong Provincial Natural Fund Project (2016A030310300); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71871069, 71401045, 61976239); the Ministry of Education in China Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (18YJAZH137); the Guangdong Provincial Natural Fund Project (2017A030313394); the major scientific research projects of Guangdong (2017WTSCX021); the planning project of the 13th Five-Year in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Guangzhou (2018GZGJ48); the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Development Center (2017A11001); and the Guangdong University Engineering Technology Research Center (2016GCZX004). This research was funded by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2015A030308017) and the Guangdong Science and Technology Key Project (Grant No. 2015B010131009).

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  1. School of Medical Information and Engineering, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Deyu Tang, Zhen Liu & Yongming Cai

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Deyu Tang & Shoubin Dong

  3. Department of Information Management Engineering, School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510520, People’s Republic of China

    Jie Zhao

  4. Guangdong Province Precise Medicine Big Data of Traditional Chinese Medicine Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Deyu Tang, Zhen Liu & Yongming Cai

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Zhao, J., Tang, D., Liu, Z. et al. Spherical search optimizer: a simple yet efficient meta-heuristic approach. Neural Comput & Applic 32, 9777–9808 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-019-04510-4

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