应急资源调度问题的改进进化规划算法研究

针对应急资源调度问题,建立一种多资源时间-成本调度模型。设计了进化规划算法的全局变异算子和局部变异算子,根据全局变异前后个体适应度值和分量值的变化趋势,实现定向变异。构建了具有惩罚系数的适应度函数,给出了改进的进化规划算法种群进化策略。计算实验表明,改进的进化规划算法具有较强的局部寻优能力,在收敛速度和求解精度方面优于比较的遗传算法、差分进化算法和进化规划算法,解决了标准进化算法的早熟收敛问题。     

一种改进的进化规划算法及其收敛性

1　引　言进化算法是一类借鉴生物界自然选择和自然遗传机制的随机搜索算法 ,主要包括遗传算法 ( genetic algorithms,GA)、进化规划 ( evolutionary programming,EP)和进化策略( evolution strategies,ES) [1 ] .遗传算法 ,进化策略和进化规划分别由 J.H.Holland,I.Rechenberg和 L.J.Fogel提出[2 ,3,4] .这些算法有许多相似性 ,且近年来都被应用于实值连续函数全局优化问题 ,并取得了较好的效果 .一些学者对进化算法的收敛性进行了分析[5,6,7,8] ,但总的说来 ,有关进化算法的理论研究成果目前还不是很多 ,尤其是进化规划和进化策略几…     

改进种群多样性的双变异差分进化算法

差分进化算法(DE)是一种基于种群的启发式随机搜索技术,对于解决连续性优化问题具有较强的鲁棒性.然而传统差分进化算法存在种群多样性和收敛速度之间的矛盾,一种改进种群多样性的双变异差分进化算法(DADE),通过引入BFS-best机制(基于排序的可行解选取递减策略)改进变异算子"DE/current-to-best",将其与DE/rand/1构成双变异策略来改善DE算法中种群多样性减少的问题.同时,每个个体的控制参数基于排序自适应更新.最后,利用多个CEC2013标准测试函数对改进算法进行测试,实验结果表明,改进后的算法能有效改善种群多样性,较好地提高了算法的全局收敛能力和收敛速度.     

基于随机搜索的一个约束优化问题的全局收敛算法

讨论了具有一般约束的全局优化问题,给出该问题的一个随机搜索算法,证明了该算法依概率1收敛到问题的全局最优解．数值结果显示该方法是有效的．     

进化规划与进化策略的变异算子

进化算法是研究全局优化算法中最重要的随机算法之一,本文给出了进化规划和进化策略的变异算子的数学描述,并提出变异函数的概念,在此基础上,给出了用均匀分布的随机数构造变异算子的几种方法和若干例子.结果表明.利用本文给出的方法,不仅可以构造出目前进化策略和进化规划算法普遍采用的几种变异算子,还可以构造出新的变异算子.针对一般的变异算子,在不要求目标函数连续的情况下,证明了保持最优个体的进化规划和进化策略,迭代产生的最优个体的函数值收敛到问题的最优值的ε-邻域的概率为1.     

相关量测噪声下的全局随机优化问题

本文考虑全局优化问题，在量测噪声可以相关的情形下，论述了随机搜索算法ａ．ｓ．收敛到全局最优集。     

区间自适应遗传算法优化无约束非线性规划问题

针对无约束非线性规划传统优化方法存在的问题,将区间自适应遗传算法引入无约束非线性规划优化中,算法可以利用当前进化信息,自适应移动搜索区间,找到全局最优解,故可缩短搜索区间长度,提高编码精度,降低算法计算量,解决了传统遗传算法处理优化问题时,给定区间必须包含最优解这一问题,这也是本算法有别于其他优化算法的独特优势,为某些最优解所在区间难以估计的无约束非线性规划问题的优化提供了一条有效可行的途径.系统阐述了区间自适应遗传算法的原理,给出了算法优化无约束非线性规划问题的步骤,以MatlabR2016b仿真方式对算法进行了实例测试,结果表明,方法是一种计算稳定、正确、有效、可靠实用的无约束非线性规划优化方法.     

改进的非线性整数规划算法

通过对LUUS随机搜索算法的分析，本文首次提出了一种改进的随机定向搜索法（MRDISA）通过实例计算，说明该算法的优点是最优解的可靠性不受初始值X^(0)和初始搜索范围R^(0)的影响，并可用于求解高维约束非线性整数规划问题。     

一种基于进化算法的非线性两层规划的快速全局优化方法

由于非线性两层规划具有非凸性、NP-难等计算困难，高效的算法并不多见。本文设计了一种新的进化算法，基于此进化算法提出了求解带有一重或多重下层的非线性两层规划的高效算法。该算法充分利用两层规划的结构特点。最后，给出了六个不同类型的算例，数值结果表明，本算法是快速和有效的。     

基于混合果蝇优化算法的选址-库存-配送集成优化研究

本文面向企业运营管理实践,构建了一种基于联合补货策略的选址-库存-配送集成优化新模型。作为典型的NP-hard问题,传统算法难以高效稳定地求解,故本文设计了一种新的混合果蝇优化算法(Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm, FOA),通过引入进化算法的信息交换、变异、选择操作来增强算法局部寻优能力,采取概率性飞行策略来平衡算法的全局寻优与局部寻优。算例结果表明,新混合FOA算法的准确性和稳定性较标准FOA有了明显的改善,与差分进化、自适应混合差分进化、粒子群优化相比也具有比较优势。     

An evolutionary programming algorithm for continuous global optimization

Evolutionary computations are very effective at performing global search (in probability), however, the speed of convergence could be slow. This paper presents an evolutionary programming algorithm combined with macro-mutation (MM), local linear bisection search (LBS) and crossover operators for global optimization. The MM operator is designed to explore the whole search space and the LBS operator to exploit the neighborhood of the solution. Simulated annealing is adopted to prevent premature convergence. The performance of the proposed algorithm is assessed by numerical experiments on 12 benchmark problems. Combined with MM, the effectiveness of various local search operators is also studied.     

Order statistics and region-based evolutionary computation

Trust region algorithms are well known in the field of local continuous optimization. They proceed by maintaining a confidence region in which a simple, most often quadratic, model is substituted to the criterion to be minimized. The minimum of the model in the trust region becomes the next starting point of the algorithm and, depending on the amount of progress made during this step, the confidence region is expanded, contracted or kept unchanged. In the field of global optimization, interval programming may be thought as a kind of confidence region approach, with a binary confidence level: the region is guaranteed to contain the optimum or guaranteed to not contain it. A probabilistic version, known as branch and probability bound, is based on an approximate probability that a region of the search space contains the optimum, and has a confidence level in the interval [0,1]. The method introduced in this paper is an application of the trust region approach within the framework of evolutionary algorithms. Regions of the search space are endowed with a prospectiveness criterion obtained from random sampling possibly coupled with a local continuous algorithm. The regions are considered as individuals for an evolutionary algorithm with mutation and crossover operators based on a transformation group. The performance of the algorithm on some standard benchmark functions is presented.     

A discrete dynamic convexized method for nonlinear integer programming

In this paper, we consider the box constrained nonlinear integer programming problem. We present an auxiliary function, which has the same discrete global minimizers as the problem. The minimization of the function using a discrete local search method can escape successfully from previously converged discrete local minimizers by taking increasing values of a parameter. We propose an algorithm to find a global minimizer of the box constrained nonlinear integer programming problem. The algorithm minimizes the auxiliary function from random initial points. We prove that the algorithm can converge asymptotically with probability one. Numerical experiments on a set of test problems show that the algorithm is efficient and robust.     

Convergence guarantees for generalized adaptive stochastic search methods for continuous global optimization

This paper presents some simple technical conditions that guarantee the convergence of a general class of adaptive stochastic global optimization algorithms. By imposing some conditions on the probability distributions that generate the iterates, these stochastic algorithms can be shown to converge to the global optimum in a probabilistic sense. These results also apply to global optimization algorithms that combine local and global stochastic search strategies and also those algorithms that combine deterministic and stochastic search strategies. This makes the results applicable to a wide range of global optimization algorithms that are useful in practice. Moreover, this paper provides convergence conditions involving the conditional densities of the random vector iterates that are easy to verify in practice. It also provides some convergence conditions in the special case when the iterates are generated by elliptical distributions such as the multivariate Normal and Cauchy distributions. These results are then used to prove the convergence of some practical stochastic global optimization algorithms, including an evolutionary programming algorithm. In addition, this paper introduces the notion of a stochastic algorithm being probabilistically dense in the domain of the function and shows that, under simple assumptions, this is equivalent to seeing any point in the domain with probability 1. This, in turn, is equivalent to almost sure convergence to the global minimum. Finally, some simple results on convergence rates are also proved.     

Global optimization of robust chance constrained problems

We propose a stochastic algorithm for the global optimization of chance constrained problems. We assume that the probability measure with which the constraints are evaluated is known only through its moments. The algorithm proceeds in two phases. In the first phase the probability distribution is (coarsely) discretized and solved to global optimality using a stochastic algorithm. We only assume that the stochastic algorithm exhibits a weak* convergence to a probability measure assigning all its mass to the discretized problem. A diffusion process is derived that has this convergence property. In the second phase, the discretization is improved by solving another nonlinear programming problem. It is shown that the algorithm converges to the solution of the original problem. We discuss the numerical performance of the algorithm and its application to process design.     

Feasible generalized monotone line search SQP algorithm for nonlinear minimax problems with inequality constraints

In this paper, the nonlinear minimax problems with inequality constraints are discussed, and a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm with a generalized monotone line search is presented. At each iteration, a feasible direction of descent is obtained by solving a quadratic programming (QP). To avoid the Maratos effect, a high order correction direction is achieved by solving another QP. As a result, the proposed algorithm has global and superlinear convergence. Especially, the global convergence is obtained under a weak Mangasarian–Fromovitz constraint qualification (MFCQ) instead of the linearly independent constraint qualification (LICQ). At last, its numerical effectiveness is demonstrated with test examples.     

Generalized monotone line search SQP algorithm for constrained minimax problems

In this article, non-linear minimax problems with general constraints are discussed. By means of solving one quadratic programming an improved direction is yielded and a second-order correction direction can also be at hand via one system of linear equations. So a new algorithm for solving the discussed problems is presented. In connection with a special merit function, the generalized monotone line search is used to yield the step size at each iteration. Under mild conditions, we can ensure global and superlinear convergence. Finally, some numerical experiments are operated to test our algorithm, and the results demonstrate that it is promising.     

A simulated annealing based genetic local search algorithm for multi-objective multicast routing problems

This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm to solve multi-objective multicast routing problems in telecommunication networks. The algorithm combines simulated annealing based strategies and a genetic local search, aiming at a more flexible and effective exploration and exploitation in the search space of the complex problem to find more non-dominated solutions in the Pareto Front. Due to the complex structure of the multicast tree, crossover and mutation operators have been specifically devised concerning the features and constraints in the problem. A new adaptive mutation probability based on simulated annealing is proposed in the hybrid algorithm to adaptively adjust the mutation rate according to the fitness of the new solution against the average quality of the current population during the evolution procedure. Two simulated annealing based search direction tuning strategies are applied to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the hybrid evolutionary algorithm. Simulations have been carried out on some benchmark multi-objective multicast routing instances and a large amount of random networks with five real world objectives including cost, delay, link utilisations, average delay and delay variation in telecommunication networks. Experimental results demonstrate that both the simulated annealing based strategies and the genetic local search within the proposed multi-objective algorithm, compared with other multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, can efficiently identify high quality non-dominated solution set for multi-objective multicast routing problems and outperform other conventional multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in the literature.