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13 Citations
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Adaptive Dynamic Disturbance Strategy for Differential Evolution Algorithm

  • Tiejun Wang,
  • Kaijun Wu,
  • Tiaotiao Du and
  • Xiaochun Cheng

13 March 2020

To overcome the problems of slow convergence speed, premature convergence leading to local optimization and parameter constraints when solving high-dimensional multi-modal optimization problems, an adaptive dynamic disturbance strategy for differenti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Information Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,402 Views
22 Pages

The dual-population differential evolution (DDE) algorithm is an optimization technique that simultaneously maintains two populations to balance global and local search. It has been demonstrated to outperform single-population differential evolution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Swarm Intelligence, Data Science and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,444 Views
24 Pages

4 September 2023

The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a simple and efficient population-based evolutionary algorithm. In DE, the mutation strategy and the control parameter play important roles in performance enhancement. However, single strategy and fixed pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,801 Views
26 Pages

Differential Evolution Using Enhanced Mutation Strategy Based on Random Neighbor Selection

  • Muhammad Hassan Baig,
  • Qamar Abbas,
  • Jamil Ahmad,
  • Khalid Mahmood and ,
  • Sultan Alfarhood,
  • Mejdl Safran and
  • Imran Ashraf
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2023

Symmetry in a differential evolution (DE) transforms a solution without impacting the family of solutions. For symmetrical problems in differential equations, DE is a strong evolutionary algorithm that provides a powerful solution to resolve global o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetries in Differential Equation and Application)
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  • Open Access
555 Views
48 Pages

In the realm of precision agriculture, agricultural UAV path planning is challenging because the UAV must avoid obstacles, follow uneven terrain, and satisfy multiple flight constraints simultaneously. Differential evolution (DE) has been widely adop...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,659 Views
25 Pages

Enhancing Differential Evolution: A Dual Mutation Strategy with Majority Dimension Voting and New Stopping Criteria

  • Anna Maria Gianni,
  • Ioannis G. Tsoulos,
  • Vasileios Charilogis and
  • Glykeria Kyrou

28 May 2025

This paper presents an innovative optimization algorithm based on differential evolution that combines advanced mutation techniques with intelligent termination mechanisms. The proposed algorithm is designed to address the main limitations of classic...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
536 Views
20 Pages

8 May 2026

At the Second Water Intake Pump Station of the Chenhang Reservoir in Shanghai, suboptimal pump scheduling resulted in electricity consumption cost attributable to pump-motor equipment accounting for an exceptionally large proportion of the total powe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Solutions for Improving Sustainability in Water Resource Management)
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  • Open Access
789 Views
23 Pages

Improving absolute accuracy in industrial manipulators remains difficult because rigid-body kinematic calibration cannot fully represent configuration-dependent non-geometric effects. Drawing inspiration from biological brain–body co-adaptation...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,329 Views
23 Pages

27 October 2025

For numerous years, researchers have extensively explored real parameter single-objective optimization by evolutionary computation. Among the various types of evolutionary algorithms, Differential Evolution (DE) performs outstandingly. Recently, the...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,775 Views
30 Pages

A Two-Stage Differential Evolution Algorithm with Mutation Strategy Combination

  • Xingping Sun,
  • Da Wang,
  • Hongwei Kang,
  • Yong Shen and
  • Qingyi Chen

11 November 2021

For most of differential evolution (DE) algorithm variants, premature convergence is still challenging. The main reason is that the exploration and exploitation are highly coupled in the existing works. To address this problem, we present a novel DE...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,445 Views
19 Pages

Differential Evolution and Agglomerative-Clustering-Based Mutation Strategy for Complex Numerical Optimization Problems

  • Tassawar Ali,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan,
  • Tasswar Iqbal,
  • Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj and ,
  • Abdullah Mohammad Alomair and
  • Naif Almusallam
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 May 2023

Differential evolution is an evolutionary algorithm that is used to solve complex numerical optimization problems. Differential evolution balances exploration and exploitation to find the best genes for the objective function. However, finding this b...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
644 Views
18 Pages

Strategy-Enhanced Differential Evolution for Suppressing Wide-Range Angular Measurement Errors in Differential Wavefront Sensing

  • Yang Li,
  • Changkang Fu,
  • Hongming Zhang,
  • Hongyang Guo and ,
  • Ligan Luo,
  • Zhiqiang Zhao,
  • Mengyang Zhao,
  • Ruihong Gao,
  • Qiang Wang and
  • Yongmei Huang
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

19 February 2026

Differential wavefront sensing (DWS) is widely adopted for high-precision angular detection in interferometric systems, yet its measurement range is constrained by the nonlinear implicit phase–angle relationship. This paper proposes a strategy-...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,387 Views
33 Pages

7 November 2022

Differential Evolution (DE) has been extensively adopted for multi-objective optimization due to its efficient and straightforward framework. In DE, the mutation operator influences the evolution of the population. In this paper, an adaptive Grid-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,692 Views
14 Pages

24 July 2022

This paper presents an energy-saving strategy that was applied to a parallel variable frequency pump system of a water circulation pumping station. Firstly, the mathematical model of shaft power consumption for the parallel pump system was establishe...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,142 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2023

The Interior layout model is to optimize the arrangement position of each room to maximize the comfort and quality of life of residents. Due to the complexity of the Interior layout problem, the computation of fitness function costs lots of time. To...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,410 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2020

A parallel compact Differential Evolution (pcDE) algorithm is proposed in this paper. The population is separated into multiple groups and the individual is run by using the method of compact Differential Evolution. The communication is implemented a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,595 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2022

Numerical optimization has been a popular research topic within various engineering applications, where differential evolution (DE) is one of the most extensively applied methods. However, it is difficult to choose appropriate control parameters and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,852 Views
20 Pages

18 November 2024

As traditional power grids are unable to meet growing demand, extensive research on multi-microgrid scheduling has begun to address the issues present in conventional power grids. However, existing studies on the scheduling of grid-connected multi-mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,278 Views
19 Pages

Edge-Weighted Consensus-Based Formation Control with Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots Based on Multi-Strategy Mutation Differential Evolution

  • Jesus Hernandez-Barragan,
  • Tonatiuh Hernandez,
  • Jorge D. Rios,
  • Marco Perez-Cisneros and
  • Alma Y. Alanis

23 August 2023

An edge-weighted consensus-based formation control strategy is presented for mobile robots. In the edge-weighted strategy, a desired formation pattern is achieved by adjusting gain weights related to the distance between robots. Moreover, the edge-we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinspired Intelligent Algorithms for Optimization, Modeling and Control: Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,563 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Population Differential Evolution Algorithm with Uniform Local Search

  • Xujie Tan,
  • Seong-Yoon Shin,
  • Kwang-Seong Shin and
  • Guangxing Wang

12 August 2022

Differential evolution (DE) is a very effective stochastic optimization algorithm based on population for solving various real-world problems. The quality of solutions to these problems is mainly determined by the combination of mutation strategies a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Information & Communication Engineering 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
543 Views
40 Pages

UAV Path Planning in Obstacle-Rich Environments Using Intelligent Cooperative Differential Evolution Approach

  • Houssem Rafik El-Hana Bouchekara,
  • Yusuf Abubakar Sha’aban,
  • Mohammad Shoaib Shahriar,
  • Ahmed Tijani Saluwudeen and ,
  • Muhammad Sharjeel Javaid,
  • Mostafa Kamel Smail,
  • Naif Abdulrahman Najjar,
  • Md Nurul Islam,
  • Asim Seedahmed Ali Osman and
  • Bander Marshud Alshammari
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

9 July 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning (UAVPP) in obstacle-rich environments requires trajectories that are collision-free, threat-aware, and feasible under practical flight constraints. This study proposes an Intelligent Cooperative Differential Evol...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,510 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2022

To overcome the shortcomings of the harmony search algorithm, such as its slow convergence rate and poor global search ability, a reward population-based differential genetic harmony search algorithm is proposed. In this algorithm, a population is di...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,899 Views
22 Pages

2 April 2019

The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a popular and efficient evolutionary algorithm that can be used for single objective real-parameter optimization. Its performance is greatly affected by its parameters. Generally, parameter control strateg...

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  • Open Access
1,232 Views
16 Pages

Automatic Tuning Method for Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Based on Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm

  • Yuanqing Zhang,
  • Baolin Xiong,
  • Le Feng,
  • Liang Li and ,
  • Wenbo Cheng and
  • Yuguo Tang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Quadrupole mass spectrometers are highly sensitive and specific analytical instruments, widely used in pharmaceuticals, clinical diagnostics, and other fields. Their performance depends on a tuning process to optimize key parameters, which has tradit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Machine Learning and Biomedicine: Updates and Directions, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,861 Views
64 Pages

In order to solve problems with the original crayfish optimization algorithm (COA), such as reduced diversity, local optimization, and insufficient convergence accuracy, a multi-strategy optimization algorithm for crayfish based on differential evolu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,510 Views
34 Pages

10 September 2025

The Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem (WFLOP) aims to improve wind energy utilization and reduce wake-induced power losses through optimal placement of wind turbines. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have been widely...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applications on Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,334 Views
42 Pages

To address the limitations of mobile robots in path planning within farmland-specific environments, this paper proposes a biomimetic model: Multi-strategy Collaborative Evolution Honey Badger Algorithm (MCEHBA), MCEHBA achieves improvements through t...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,866 Views
25 Pages

21 November 2024

Path planning and collision avoidance issues are key to the autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). This study proposes an adaptive differential evolution algorithm model integrated with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP-ADE). Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Perception, Planning, Control and Swarm)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,056 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2022

Industrial control systems (ICS) are facing increasing cybersecurity issues, leading to enormous threats and risks to numerous industrial infrastructures. In order to resist such threats and risks, it is particularly important to scientifically const...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,613 Views
33 Pages

Differential evolution (DE) is a simple, effective, and robust algorithm, which has demonstrated excellent performance in dealing with global optimization problems. However, different search strategies are designed for different fitness landscape con...

(This article belongs to the Topic Soft Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
341 Views
50 Pages

22 August 2026

With the increasing complexity of engineering optimization and intelligent decision-making problems, traditional metaheuristic algorithms often suffer from premature convergence, loss of population diversity, and insufficient adaptability to complex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Mathematical Optimization Algorithm and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,418 Views
28 Pages

An Improved Differential Evolution for Parameter Identification of Photovoltaic Models

  • Shufu Yuan,
  • Yuzhang Ji,
  • Yongxu Chen,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Weijun Zhang

19 September 2023

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are crucial for converting solar energy into electricity. Optimization, control, and simulation for PV systems are important for effectively harnessing solar energy. The exactitude of associated model parameters is an import...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
785 Views
35 Pages

31 January 2026

In this study, an enhanced variant of the Secretary Bird Optimization Algorithm (SBOA), named MSVSBOA, is proposed to address the limitations of the SBOA in global optimization and UAV 3D path-planning. The proposed MSVSBOA integrates three complemen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation, Metaheuristics, Nature-Inspired Algorithms, and Symmetry: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,933 Views
23 Pages

With the increase of on-orbit maintenance and support requirements, the application of a space manipulator is becoming more promising. In actual operation, the strong coupling of the free-floating space robot itself and the unknown disturbance of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,207 Views
30 Pages

3 February 2025

To cope with common local optimum traps and balance exploration and development in complex multi-peak optimisation problems, this paper puts forth a Dual-Performance Multi-subpopulation Adaptive Restart Differential Evolutionary Algorithm (DPR-MGDE)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Intelligent Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,198 Views
30 Pages

Community Agricultural Reservoir Construction and Water Supply Network Design in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, Using Adjusted Variable Neighborhood Strategy Adaptive Search

  • Rerkchai Srivoramasa,
  • Natthapong Nanthasamroeng,
  • Rapeepan Pitakaso,
  • Thanatkij Srichok and ,
  • Surajet Khonjun,
  • Worapot Sirirak and
  • Chalermchat Theeraviriya
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 February 2023

Agricultural sectors all over the world are facing water deficiencies as a result of various factors. Countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) in particular depend on the production of agricultural products; thus, drought has become a critical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Artificial Intelligence for Smart Water Management)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,186 Views
17 Pages

6 February 2018

In the past two decades, China’s manufacturing industry has achieved great success. However, pollution and environmental impacts have become more serious while this industry has grown. The economic and emission dispatch (EED) problem is a typical mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition from China-Made to China-Innovation )
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,552 Views
30 Pages

24 October 2025

This paper introduces TRIDENT-DE, a novel ensemble-based variant of Differential Evolution (DE) designed to tackle complex continuous global optimization problems. The algorithm leverages three complementary trial vector generation strategies best/1/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,104 Views
39 Pages

Empirical Evaluation of an Elitist Replacement Strategy for Differential Evolution with Micro-Populations

  • Irving Luna-Ortiz,
  • Alejandro Rodríguez-Molina,
  • Miguel Gabriel Villarreal-Cervantes,
  • Mario Aldape-Pérez and ,
  • Alam Gabriel Rojas-López and
  • Jesús Aldo Paredes-Ballesteros
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2025

This paper introduces a variant of differential evolution with micro-populations, called μ-DE-ERM, which incorporates a periodic elitist replacement mechanism with the aim of preserving diversity without the need to measure it explicitly. The prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploration of Bio-Inspired Computing: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,228 Views
21 Pages

19 January 2022

Understanding the evolution of farmers’ livelihood strategies (FLS) is crucial for maintaining the sustainable development of farmers’ livelihoods, especially on the arid Loess Plateau, China. This study constructed a novel analytical fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,027 Views
23 Pages

11 December 2025

Multimodal optimization is characterized by the dual imperative of achieving global peak diversity and local precision enhancement for discovered solutions. An adaptive memetic differential evolution is proposed in this work based on the virtual popu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Distributed Control & Optimization Algorithms for Networked Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,180 Views
22 Pages

7 June 2021

Environmental concerns and rising energy prices put great pressure on the manufacturing industry to reduce pollution and save energy. Electricity is one of the main machinery energy sources in a plant; thus, reducing energy consumption both saves ene...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,800 Views
24 Pages

A Multimodal Differential Evolution Algorithm in Initial Orbit Determination for a Space-Based Too Short Arc

  • Hui Xie,
  • Shengli Sun,
  • Tianru Xue,
  • Wenjun Xu and ,
  • Huikai Liu,
  • Linjian Lei and
  • Yue Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2022

Under the too short arc scenario, the evolutionary-based algorithm has more potential than traditional methods in initial orbit determination. However, the underlying multimodal phenomenon in initial orbit determination is ignored by current works. I...

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  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,633 Views
25 Pages

Prediction of the Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) of Asymmetric Friction Stir Welding Using Ensemble Machine Learning Methods

  • Surasak Matitopanum,
  • Rapeepan Pitakaso,
  • Kanchana Sethanan,
  • Thanatkij Srichok and
  • Peerawat Chokanat

27 January 2023

This research aims to develop ensemble machine-learning methods for forecasting the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of friction stir welding (FSW). The substance utilized in the experiment was a mixture of aluminum alloys AA5083 and AA5061. An ensemb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,640 Views
26 Pages

11 February 2023

This study proposes an improved vector-weighted averaging algorithm (IDEINFO) for the optimization of different problems. The original vector-weighted optimization algorithm (INFO) uses weighted averaging for entity structures and uses three core pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
473 Views
50 Pages

6 August 2026

The recently proposed Animated Oat Optimization (AOO) algorithm exhibits competitive search behavior, but its fixed branching rules and limited use of inter-individual information may cause diversity loss and premature stagnation. This study proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization and Control for Unmanned Systems and Intelligent Logistics)
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  • Open Access
606 Views
80 Pages

The rapid development of intelligent systems has introduced increasingly sophisticated optimization problems across diverse domains. While contemporary metaheuristic algorithms, including the recent Artificial Lemming Algorithm (ALA), have shown cons...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,398 Views
30 Pages

31 July 2023

Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most popular and widely used optimizers among the community of evolutionary computation. Despite numerous works having been conducted on the improvement of DE performance, there are still some defects, such a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,620 Views
28 Pages

A State-of-the-Art Fractional Order-Driven Differential Evolution for Wind Farm Layout Optimization

  • Sichen Tao,
  • Sicheng Liu,
  • Ruihan Zhao,
  • Yifei Yang and ,
  • Hiroyoshi Todo and
  • Haichuan Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 January 2025

The wind farm layout optimization problem (WFLOP) aims to maximize wind energy utilization efficiency and mitigate energy losses caused by wake effects by optimizing the spatial layout of wind turbines. Although Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics in Neural Networks)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,746 Views
24 Pages

Competitive Elimination Improved Differential Evolution for Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problems

  • Sichen Tao,
  • Yifei Yang,
  • Ruihan Zhao,
  • Hiroyoshi Todo and
  • Zheng Tang

28 November 2024

The wind farm layout optimization problem (WFLOP) aims to maximize wind energy utilization efficiency under different wind conditions by optimizing the spatial layout of wind turbines to fully mitigate energy losses caused by wake effects. Some high-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applications on Power Systems)

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