A novel wise step strategy for firefly algorithm

Abstract

Firefly algorithm is a bio-inspired optimization algorithm which has been empirically demonstrated to perform well on many optimization problems. However, it can easily get trapped in the local optima and causes low precision. Therefore, improvement of this disadvantage is the very important. In this paper, we propose a wise strategy for step setting, which considers the information of firefly's personal and the global best positions. The results show that the modified algorithm enhances the performance of the basic firefly algorithm.

Keywords:

• firefly algorithm
• step
• local optima
• global optimum
• optimization

2010 AMS Subject Classifications:

• 65Y20
• 68Q25
• 68T05
• 68W20
• 68U20

Acknowledgements

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 71071045, 61075049) and the Universities Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (No. KJ2011A268, KJ2012Z429). Thank Prof. Shanlin Yang for giving us many help. The authors of the paper express great acknowledgement for these supports.