Comparative performance of an elitist teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm for solving unconstrained optimization problems

Article history: Received 11 July 2012 Received in revised format 14 August 2012 Accepted August 31 2012 Available online 1 September 2012 Teaching-Learning-based optimization (TLBO) is a recently proposed population based algorithm, which simulates the teaching-learning process of the class room. This algorithm requires only the common control parameters and does not require any algorithm-specific control parameters. In this paper, the effect of elitism on the performance of the TLBO algorithm is investigated while solving unconstrained benchmark problems. The effects of common control parameters such as the population size and the number of generations on the performance of the algorithm are also investigated. The proposed algorithm is tested on 76 unconstrained benchmark functions with different characteristics and the performance of the algorithm is compared with that of other well known optimization algorithms. A statistical test is also performed to investigate the results obtained using different algorithms. The results have proved the effectiveness of the proposed elitist TLBO algorithm. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved

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