Hybridizing Shuffled Frog Leaping and Shuffled Complex Evolution Algorithms Using Local Search Methods

In this research, a study was carried out to exploit the hybrid schemes combining two classical local search techniques i.e. Nelder–Mead simplex search method and bidirectional random optimization with two metaheuristic methods i.e. the shuffled frog leaping and the shuffled complex evolution, respectively. In this hybrid methodology, each subset of meta-heuristic algorithms is improved by a hybrid strategy that is combined from evolutionary process of each subset in related algorithm and a local search method. These hybrid algorithms are evaluated on low and high dimensional continuous benchmark functions and the obtained results are compared with their non-hybrid competitors. The obtained results demonstrate that the hybrid algorithm combined from shuffled frog leaping and Nelder–Mead simplex has a better success rate but a higher number of function evaluations on low-dimensional functions than the shuffled frog leaping. Whereas on high-dimensional functions it has a better success rate and a faster performance. Also the hybrid algorithm combined from shuffled complex evolution and bidirectional random optimization obtains a better performance in terms of success rate and function evaluations than shuffled complex evolution on low dimensional functions; whereas on high-dimensional functions, it obtains a better success rate but a slower performance. Also a comparison of our hybrid algorithms with the other evolutionary algorithms reported in the literature confirms our proposed algorithms have the best performance among all compared algorithms. Hybridizing Shuffled Frog Leaping and Shuffled Complex Evolution Algorithms Using Local Search Methods