A simplex social spider algorithm for solving integer programming and minimax problems

In this paper, we propose a new hybrid social spider algorithm with simplex Nelder-Mead method in order to solve integer programming and minimax problems. We call the proposed algorithm a Simplex Social Spider optimization (SSSO) algorithm. In the the proposed SSSO algorithm, we combine the social spider algorithm with its powerful capability of performing exploration, exploitation, and the Nelder-Mead method in order to refine the best obtained solution from the standard social spider algorithm. In order to investigate the general performance of the proposed SSSO algorithm, we test it on 7 integer programming problems and 10 minimax problems and compare against 10 algorithms for solving integer programming problems and 9 algorithms for solving minimax problems. The experiments results show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm and its ability to solve integer and minimax optimization problems in reasonable time.     

整数规划的布谷鸟算法

布谷鸟搜索算法是一种新型的智能优化算法．本文采用截断取整的方法将基本布谷鸟搜索算法用于求解整数规划问题．通过对标准测试函数进行仿真实验并与粒子群算法进行比较,结果表明本文所提算法比粒子群算法拥有更好的性能和更强的全局寻优能力,可以作为一种实用方法用于求解整数规划问题．     

Omni-optimizer: A generic evolutionary algorithm for single and multi-objective optimization

Due to the vagaries of optimization problems encountered in practice, users resort to different algorithms for solving different optimization problems. In this paper, we suggest and evaluate an optimization procedure which specializes in solving a wide variety of optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is designed as a generic multi-objective, multi-optima optimizer. Care has been taken while designing the algorithm such that it automatically degenerates to efficient algorithms for solving other simpler optimization problems, such as single-objective uni-optimal problems, single-objective multi-optima problems and multi-objective uni-optimal problems. The efficacy of the proposed algorithm in solving various problems is demonstrated on a number of test problems chosen from the literature. Because of its efficiency in handling different types of problems with equal ease, this algorithm should find increasing use in real-world optimization problems.     

A note on the optimization of constrained design problems

This paper describes a new algorithm for solving constrained optimization problems, based on a method proposed by Chattopadhyay. The proposed algorithm replaces the original problem withm constraints,m>1, by a sequence of optimization problems, with one constraint. Here, we modify the algorithm given by Chattopadhyay in order to make it applicable for a larger class of optimization problems and to improve its convergence characteristics.     

Multiple reduced gradient method for multiobjective optimization problems

Multiobjective optimization has a large number of real-life applications. Under this motivation, in this paper, we present a new method for solving multiobjective optimization problems with both linear constraints and bound constraints on the variables. This method extends, to the multiobjective setting, the classical reduced gradient method for scalar-valued optimization. The proposed algorithm generates a feasible descent direction by solving an appropriate quadratic subproblem, without the use of any scalarization approaches. We prove that the sequence generated by the algorithm converges to Pareto-critical points of the problem. We also present some numerical results to show the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Modified subspace limited memory BFGS algorithm for large-scale bound constrained optimization

In this paper, a subspace limited memory BFGS algorithm for solving large-scale bound constrained optimization problems is developed. It is modifications of the subspace limited memory quasi-Newton method proposed by Ni and Yuan [Q. Ni, Y.X. Yuan, A subspace limited memory quasi-Newton algorithm for large-scale nonlinear bound constrained optimization, Math. Comput. 66 (1997) 1509–1520]. An important property of our proposed method is that more limited memory BFGS update is used. Under appropriate conditions, the global convergence of the method is established. The implementations of the method on CUTE test problems are presented, which indicate the modifications are beneficial to the performance of the algorithm.     

超越方程的优化解法

针对粒子群算法局部搜索能力差,后期收敛速度慢等缺点,提出了一种改进的粒子群算法,该算法是在粒子群算法后期加入拟牛顿方法,充分发挥了粒子群算法的全局搜索性和拟牛顿法的局部精细搜索性,从而克服了粒子群算法的不足,把超越方程转化为函数优化的问题,利用该算法求解,数值实验结果表明,算法有较高的收敛速度和求解精度。     

A Computational Study of the Homogeneous Algorithm for Large-scale Convex Optimization

Recently the authors have proposed a homogeneous and self-dual algorithm for solving the monotone complementarity problem (MCP) [5]. The algorithm is a single phase interior-point type method; nevertheless, it yields either an approximate optimal solution or detects a possible infeasibility of the problem. In this paper we specialize the algorithm to the solution of general smooth convex optimization problems, which also possess nonlinear inequality constraints and free variables. We discuss an implementation of the algorithm for large-scale sparse convex optimization. Moreover, we present computational results for solving quadratically constrained quadratic programming and geometric programming problems, where some of the problems contain more than 100,000 constraints and variables. The results indicate that the proposed algorithm is also practically efficient.     

New decomposition and convexification algorithm for nonconvex large-scale primal-dual optimization

A new algorithm for solving nonconvex, equality-constrained optimization problems with separable structures is proposed in the present paper. A new augmented Lagrangian function is derived, and an iterative method is presented. The new proposed Lagrangian function preserves separability when the original problem is separable, and the property of linear convergence of the new algorithm is also presented. Unlike earlier algorithms for nonconvex decomposition, the convergence ratio for this method can be made arbitrarily small. Furthermore, it is feasible to extend this method to algorithms suited for inequality-constrained optimization problems. An example is included to illustrate the method.This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. ECS-85-06249.     

非线性约束优化问题的混合粒子群算法

把处理约束条件的一个外点方法和改进的粒子群优化算法相结合,提出了一种求解非线性约束优化问题的混合粒子群优化算法.该方法兼顾了粒子群优化和外点法的优点,对算法迭代过程中出现不可行粒子,利用外点法处理后产生可行粒子.数值实验表明了提出的新算法具有有效性、通用性和稳健性.