Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
172453 Computers & Chemical Engineering 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Leapfrogging is a multi-player (particle) direct search optimization algorithm.•For the leap-over, the player with the worst objective function value is relocated to a random position in decision variable space on the other side of the player with the best value.•This work develops and demonstrates a player initialization strategy that reduces the number of function evaluations required for a specified probability of finding the global optimum.

A method to determine the initial number of players (particles) in Leapfrogging, a multi-player optimization algorithm, to best balance the probability of finding the global minimum with fewest objective function evaluations is developed and demonstrated.

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