A Novel Biogeography-Based Optimization Algorithm with Momentum Migration and Taxonomic Mutation

Abstract

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm is not good at dealing with regions where function values change dramatically or barely. A novel biogeography-based optimization algorithm is proposed in this paper based on Momentum migration and taxonomic mutation. The momentum item is added to the original migration operation of BBO. It makes the algorithm more advantageous in dealing with regions where function values change dramatically or barely. At the same time, taxonomic mutation strategy divides the solutions into three categories: promising class, middle class and inferior class. Promising solutions do not take part in this mutation operation. Solutions of middle class use balanced differential mutation, and inferior solutions adopt exploration-biased random mutation. This strategy further increases the diversity of population. The simulation experiments are carried out with different types of CEC2014 benchmark functions. The proposed algorithm is compared with other algorithms and shows stronger global search ability, faster convergence speed and higher convergence accuracy.