Survey on Chaotic Optimization Methods

Chaos is a universal nonlinear phenomenon with stochastic property, ergodic property and regular property, whose ergodicity can be used as a kind of mechanism for optimization to effectively avoid the search being trapped in local optimum, so that chaos has been a novel and promising tool for global optimization. In this paper, a survey on chaotic optimization including functional optimization based on chaos and combinatorial optimization based on chaotic neural network has been presented, the features of chaotic optimization have been analyzed, as well as some corresponding studies to be improved have been discussed.