Author(s)

Zhiwei Gao, Bo Wang^*

College of Science, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China.

In response to the shortcomings of the Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) such as low convergence accuracy and slow convergence speed, a Multi-Strategy-Driven Salp Swarm Algorithm (MSD-SSA) was proposed. First, food sources or random leaders were associated with the current bottle sea squirt at the beginning of the iteration, to which Levy flight random walk and crossover operators with small probability were added to improve the global search and ability to jump out of local optimum. Secondly, the position mean of the leader was used to establish a link with the followers, which effectively avoided the blind following of the followers and greatly improved the convergence speed of the algorithm. Finally, Brownian motion stochastic steps were introduced to improve the convergence accuracy of populations near food sources. The improved method switched under changes in the adaptive parameters, balancing the exploration and development of SSA. In the simulation experiments, the performance of the algorithm was examined using SSA and MSD-SSA on the commonly used CEC benchmark test functions and CEC2017-constrained optimization problems, and the effectiveness of MSD-SSA was verified by solving three real engineering problems. The results showed that MSD-SSA improved the convergence speed and convergence accuracy of the algorithm, and achieved good results in practical engineering problems.

Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), Levy Flight, Brownian Motion, Location Update, Simulation Experiment

Gao, Z. and Wang, B. (2023) Multi-Strategy-Driven Salp Swarm Algorithm for Global Optimization. Journal of Computer and Communications, 11, 88-117. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2023.117007.