A Quantum Behaved Gravitational Search Algorithm

Mohadeseh Soleimanpour Moghadam, Hossein Nezamabadi-Pour, Malihe M. Farsangi

Electrical Engineering Department, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/iim.2012.46043                

Abstract

Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is a recent introduced global convergence guaranteed algorithm. In this paper, a quantum-behaved gravitational search algorithm, namely called as QGSA, is proposed. In the proposed QGSA each individual mass moves in a Delta potential well in feasible search space with a center which is weighted average of all kbests. The QGSA is tested on several benchmark functions and compared with the GSA. It is shown that the quantum-behaved gravitational search algorithm has faster convergence speed with good precision, and thus generating a better performance.

Keywords

GSA; Quantum Mechanics; kbest; QGSA

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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