Clustering and Memory-based Parent-Child Swarm Meta-heuristic Algorithm for Dynamic Optimization

So far, various optimization methods have been proposed, and swarm intelligence algorithms have gathered a lot of attention by academia. However, most of the recent optimization problems in the real world have a dynamic nature. Thus, an optimization algorithm is required to solve the problems in dynamic environments well. In this paper, a novel collective optimization algorithm, namely the Clustering and Memory-based Parent-Child Swarm Algorithm (CMPCS), is presented. This method relies on both individual and group behavior. A memory with clustering and exclusion has been used in this algorithm in order to increase the efficiency. The proposed CMPCS method has been tested on the moving peaks benchmark (MPB). The MPB is a good Benchmark to evaluate the efficiency of the optimization algorithms in dynamic environments. The experimental results on the MPB reveal the appropriate efficiency of the proposed CMPCS method compared to the other state-of-the-art methods in solving the dynamic optimization problems.