A Novel Hybrid Dragonfly Algorithm with Modified Conjugate Gradient Method

Abstract

Dragonfly Algorithm (DA) is a meta-heuristic algorithm, It is a new algorithm proposed by Mirjalili in (2015) and it simulate the behavior of dragonflies in their search for food and migration. In this paper, a modified conjugate gradient algorithm is proposed by deriving new conjugate coefficient. The sufficient descent and the global convergence properties for the proposed algorithm are proved. Novel hybrid algorithm of the dragonfly (DA) was proposed with modified conjugate gradient Algorithm which develops the elementary society that is randomly generated as the primary society for the dragonfly optimization algorithm using the characteristics of the modified conjugate gradient algorithm. The efficiency of the hybrid algorithm was measured by applying it to (10) of the optimization functions of high measurement with different dimensions and the results of the hybrid algorithm were very good in comparison with the original algorithm