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4 Citations
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15 December 2016

Gene expression data are usually redundant, and only a subset of them presents distinct profiles for different classes of samples. Thus, selecting high discriminative genes from gene expression data has become increasingly interesting in bioinformati...

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  • Open Access
157 Citations
14,522 Views
25 Pages

Differential Evolution: A Survey and Analysis

  • Tarik Eltaeib and
  • Ausif Mahmood

16 October 2018

Differential evolution (DE) has been extensively used in optimization studies since its development in 1995 because of its reputation as an effective global optimizer. DE is a population-based metaheuristic technique that develops numerical vectors t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,643 Views
23 Pages

Improving Performance of Differential Evolution Using Multi-Population Ensemble Concept

  • Aadil Bashir,
  • Qamar Abbas,
  • Khalid Mahmood,
  • Sultan Alfarhood,
  • Mejdl Safran and
  • Imran Ashraf

25 September 2023

Differential evolution (DE) stands out as a straightforward yet remarkably powerful evolutionary algorithm employed for real-world problem-solving purposes. In the DE algorithm, few parameters are used, and the population is evolved by applying vario...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,798 Views
21 Pages

U-Shaped Assembly Line Balancing by Using Differential Evolution Algorithm

  • Poontana Sresracoo,
  • Nuchsara Kriengkorakot,
  • Preecha Kriengkorakot and
  • Krit Chantarasamai

The objective of this research is to develop metaheuristic methods by using the differential evolution (DE) algorithm for solving the U-shaped assembly line balancing problem Type 1 (UALBP-1). The proposed DE algorithm is applied for balancing the li...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,015 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2020

A parallel compact Differential Evolution (pcDE) algorithm is proposed in this paper. The population is separated into multiple groups and the individual is run by using the method of compact Differential Evolution. The communication is implemented a...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,248 Views
22 Pages

7 February 2024

Differential evolution is a popular heuristic black-box numerical optimization algorithm which is often used due to its simplicity and efficiency. Parameter adaptation is one of the main directions of study regarding the differential evolution algori...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,338 Views
26 Pages

10 October 2024

Differential evolution is capable of searching for the optimum for different types of optimization problems with a few inputs, which has gained worldwide popularity. In this paper, we propose a parameters adaptation scheme based on the stagnation rat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,142 Views
19 Pages

A Stigmergy-Based Differential Evolution

  • Valentín Osuna-Enciso and
  • Elizabeth Guevara-Martínez

15 June 2022

Metaheuristic algorithms are techniques that have been successfully applied to solve complex optimization problems in engineering and science. Many metaheuristic approaches, such as Differential Evolution (DE), use the best individual found so far fr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,037 Views
14 Pages

Magnetic Inversion through a Modified Adaptive Differential Evolution

  • Tao Song,
  • Lianzheng Cheng,
  • Tiaojie Xiao,
  • Junhao Hu and
  • Beibei Zhang

4 December 2023

In recent decades, differential evolution (DE) has been employed to address a diverse range of nonlinear, nondifferentiable, and nonconvex optimization problems. In this study, we introduce an enhanced adaptive differential evolution algorithm to add...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,134 Views
20 Pages

Scan Matching by Cross-Correlation and Differential Evolution

  • Jaromir Konecny,
  • Pavel Kromer,
  • Michal Prauzek and
  • Petr Musilek

Scan matching is an important task, solved in the context of many high-level problems including pose estimation, indoor localization, simultaneous localization and mapping and others. Methods that are accurate and adaptive and at the same time comput...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,243 Views
17 Pages

Differential Evolution with Linear Bias Reduction in Parameter Adaptation

  • Vladimir Stanovov,
  • Shakhnaz Akhmedova and
  • Eugene Semenkin

9 November 2020

In this study, a new parameter control scheme is proposed for the differential evolution algorithm. The developed linear bias reduction scheme controls the Lehmer mean parameter value depending on the optimization stage, allowing the algorithm to imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,497 Views
10 Pages

In this work, the differential evolution algorithm behavior under a fixed point arithmetic is analyzed also using half-precision floating point (FP) numbers of 16 bits, and these last numbers are known as FP16. In this paper, it is considered that it...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,185 Views
16 Pages

Differential Evolution for Neural Networks Optimization

  • Marco Baioletti,
  • Gabriele Di Bari,
  • Alfredo Milani and
  • Valentina Poggioni

2 January 2020

In this paper, a Neural Networks optimizer based on Self-adaptive Differential Evolution is presented. This optimizer applies mutation and crossover operators in a new way, taking into account the structure of the network according to a per layer str...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,086 Views
24 Pages

7 March 2021

Recently, the differential evolution (DE) algorithm has been widely used to solve many practical problems. However, DE may suffer from stagnation problems in the iteration process. Thus, we propose an enhancing differential evolution with a rank-up s...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,408 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Multistrategy-Based Differential Evolution Algorithm and Its Application

  • Jinyin Wang,
  • Shifan Shang,
  • Huanyu Jing,
  • Jiahui Zhu,
  • Yingjie Song,
  • Yuangang Li and
  • Wu Deng

26 October 2022

To address the poor searchability, population diversity, and slow convergence speed of the differential evolution (DE) algorithm in solving capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRP), a new multistrategy-based differential evolution algorithm with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,265 Views
21 Pages

Neuroevolution for Parameter Adaptation in Differential Evolution

  • Vladimir Stanovov,
  • Shakhnaz Akhmedova and
  • Eugene Semenkin

7 April 2022

Parameter adaptation is one of the key research fields in the area of evolutionary computation. In this study, the application of neuroevolution of augmented topologies to design efficient parameter adaptation techniques for differential evolution is...

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  • Open Access
835 Views
27 Pages

30 September 2025

Multi-Robot Task Assignment (MRTA) is a critical and inherently multi-objective problem in diverse real-world applications, demanding the simultaneous optimization of conflicting objectives such as minimizing total travel distance and balancing robot...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
1,729 Views
10 Pages

Open canals are important water transfer structures used in water resources systems. As such, they may require substantial amount of investment depending on its length and cross section. Therefore, cross section design should be carried out on an opt...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,349 Views
20 Pages

17 May 2025

In this study, twelve modified differential evolution algorithms with memory properties and adaptive parameters were proposed to address optimization problems. In the experimental process, these modified differential evolution algorithms were applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,670 Views
12 Pages

Adaptive Dynamic Disturbance Strategy for Differential Evolution Algorithm

  • Tiejun Wang,
  • Kaijun Wu,
  • Tiaotiao Du and
  • Xiaochun Cheng

13 March 2020

To overcome the problems of slow convergence speed, premature convergence leading to local optimization and parameter constraints when solving high-dimensional multi-modal optimization problems, an adaptive dynamic disturbance strategy for differenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,999 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Population Differential Evolution Algorithm with Uniform Local Search

  • Xujie Tan,
  • Seong-Yoon Shin,
  • Kwang-Seong Shin and
  • Guangxing Wang

12 August 2022

Differential evolution (DE) is a very effective stochastic optimization algorithm based on population for solving various real-world problems. The quality of solutions to these problems is mainly determined by the combination of mutation strategies a...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,301 Views
20 Pages

Dual-Population Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm L-NTADE

  • Vladimir Stanovov,
  • Shakhnaz Akhmedova and
  • Eugene Semenkin

9 December 2022

This study proposes a dual-population algorithmic scheme for differential evolution and specific mutation strategy. The first population contains the newest individuals, and is continuously updated, whereas the other keeps the top individuals through...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,142 Views
34 Pages

An Analysis of Differential Evolution Population Size

  • Amani Saad,
  • Andries P. Engelbrecht and
  • Salman A. Khan

31 October 2024

The performance of the differential evolution algorithm (DE) is known to be highly sensitive to the values assigned to its control parameters. While numerous studies of the DE control parameters do exist, these studies have limitations, particularly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,965 Views
22 Pages

The dual-population differential evolution (DDE) algorithm is an optimization technique that simultaneously maintains two populations to balance global and local search. It has been demonstrated to outperform single-population differential evolution...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,545 Views
22 Pages

2 April 2019

The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a popular and efficient evolutionary algorithm that can be used for single objective real-parameter optimization. Its performance is greatly affected by its parameters. Generally, parameter control strateg...

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  • Open Access
69 Citations
5,604 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2018

Since different incident waves will cause the same array to perform differently with respect to the wave energy converter (WEC), the parameters of the incident wave, including the incident angle and the incident wave number, are taken into account fo...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,819 Views
23 Pages

A Thermodynamical Selection-Based Discrete Differential Evolution for the 0-1 Knapsack Problem

  • Zhaolu Guo,
  • Xuezhi Yue,
  • Kejun Zhang,
  • Shenwen Wang and
  • Zhijian Wu

28 November 2014

Many problems in business and engineering can be modeled as 0-1 knapsack problems. However, the 0-1 knapsack problem is one of the classical NP-hard problems. Therefore, it is valuable to develop effective and efficient algorithms for solving 0-1 kna...

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  • Open Access
544 Views
20 Pages

Binary Differential Evolution with a Limited Maximum Number of Dimension Changes

  • Jade Filgueira,
  • Thiago Antonini Alves,
  • Clodomir Santana,
  • Attilio Converti,
  • Carmelo J. A. Bastos-Filho and
  • Hugo Siqueira

1 October 2025

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are those based on the phenomenon of survival of the fittest. Differential Evolution (DE) is a member of this family, and it is well-suited for handling problems with real-valued variables. However, to use DE to solve bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,217 Views
23 Pages

Inversion of Gravity Data with Multiplicative Regularization Using an Improved Adaptive Differential Evolution

  • Lianzheng Cheng,
  • Tiaojie Xiao,
  • Xing Hu,
  • Ali Wagdy Mohamed,
  • Yun Liu and
  • Wei Du

31 July 2023

Differential evolution (DE) is a stochastic optimization technique that imitates the evolution process in nature. This paper uses an improved adaptive differential evolution to solve gravity inversion with multiplicative regularization. Compared with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,838 Views
17 Pages

Crossover Rate Sorting in Adaptive Differential Evolution

  • Vladimir Stanovov,
  • Lev Kazakovtsev and
  • Eugene Semenkin

2 March 2023

Differential evolution (DE) is a popular and efficient heuristic numerical optimization algorithm that has found many applications in various fields. One of the main disadvantages of DE is its sensitivity to parameter values. In this study, we invest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,544 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

A recloser requires a fast operating time in the first shot to optimally clear a temporary fault. The operating time is dependent on the time-dial, the pick-up settings, and the fault current. The recloser detects the fault current from the grid supp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,253 Views
13 Pages

Solving Optimal Power Flow Problem via Improved Constrained Adaptive Differential Evolution

  • Wenchao Yi,
  • Zhilei Lin,
  • Youbin Lin,
  • Shusheng Xiong,
  • Zitao Yu and
  • Yong Chen

4 March 2023

The optimal power flow problem is one of the most widely used problems in power system optimizations, which are multi-modal, non-linear, and constrained optimization problems. Effective constrained optimization methods can be considered in tackling t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,402 Views
15 Pages

Differential Evolution Applied to a Multilevel Inverter—A Case Study

  • Oscar Sánchez Vargas,
  • Susana Estefany De León Aldaco,
  • Jesús Aguayo Alquicira,
  • Luis Gerardo Vela Valdés and
  • Jesús Darío Mina Antonio

1 October 2022

This work aims to obtain the switching angles to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD) and compare the different sets of angles obtained by modifying the modular index (Mi) in a seven-level multilevel inverter using the differential evolution (D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,840 Views
10 Pages

Array Pattern Synthesis Using a Hybrid Differential Evolution and Analytic Algorithm

  • Rui Li,
  • Le Xu,
  • Xiaoqun Chen,
  • Yong Yang,
  • Xiaoning Yang,
  • Jianxiao Wang,
  • Yuanming Cai and
  • Feng Wei

11 September 2021

In this paper, a hybrid differential evolution and weight total least squares method (HDE-WTLSM) is proposed for antenna array pattern synthesis. A variable diagonal weight matrix is introduced in total least squares method. Then, the weight matrix i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,145 Views
25 Pages

21 May 2023

Differential evolution (DE) is one of the best evolutionary algorithms (EAs). In recent decades, many techniques have been developed to enhance the performance of this algorithm, such as the Improve Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution (ISADE) algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,301 Views
12 Pages

Applying Two-Stage Differential Evolution for Energy Saving in Optimal Chiller Loading

  • Chang-Ming Lin,
  • Chun-Yin Wu,
  • Ko-Ying Tseng,
  • Chih-Chiang Ku and
  • Sheng-Fuu Lin

15 February 2019

In Taiwan, over 45% of the energy in common buildings is used for the air-conditioning system. In particular, the chiller plant consumes about 70% of the energy in air-conditioning system. The electric energy consumption of air-condition system in a...

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  • Open Access
685 Views
23 Pages

27 October 2025

For numerous years, researchers have extensively explored real parameter single-objective optimization by evolutionary computation. Among the various types of evolutionary algorithms, Differential Evolution (DE) performs outstandingly. Recently, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,437 Views
28 Pages

A Two-Stage Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm with Accompanying Populations

  • Chao Min,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Qingxia Zhang,
  • Zeyun Jiang and
  • Liwen Zhou

28 January 2025

Stochastic simulations are often used to determine the crossover rates and step size of evolutionary algorithms to avoid the tuning process, but they cannot fully utilize information from the evolutionary process. A two-stage adaptive differential ev...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,006 Views
19 Pages

18 November 2016

The issue of exploration-exploitation remains one of the most challenging tasks within the framework of evolutionary algorithms. To effectively balance the exploration and exploitation in the search space, this paper proposes a modified cloud particl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,770 Views
24 Pages

4 September 2023

The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a simple and efficient population-based evolutionary algorithm. In DE, the mutation strategy and the control parameter play important roles in performance enhancement. However, single strategy and fixed pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,030 Views
19 Pages

Differential Evolution and Agglomerative-Clustering-Based Mutation Strategy for Complex Numerical Optimization Problems

  • Tassawar Ali,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan,
  • Tasswar Iqbal,
  • Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj,
  • Abdullah Mohammad Alomair and
  • Naif Almusallam

20 May 2023

Differential evolution is an evolutionary algorithm that is used to solve complex numerical optimization problems. Differential evolution balances exploration and exploitation to find the best genes for the objective function. However, finding this b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,874 Views
21 Pages

28 May 2021

The knapsack problem is one of the most widely researched NP-complete combinatorial optimization problems and has numerous practical applications. This paper proposes a quantum-inspired differential evolution algorithm with grey wolf optimizer (QDGWO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,217 Views
19 Pages

Improving the Quantum Multi-Swarm Optimization with Adaptive Differential Evolution for Dynamic Environments

  • Vladimir Stanovov,
  • Shakhnaz Akhmedova,
  • Aleksei Vakhnin,
  • Evgenii Sopov,
  • Eugene Semenkin and
  • Michael Affenzeller

30 April 2022

In this study, the modification of the quantum multi-swarm optimization algorithm is proposed for dynamic optimization problems. The modification implies using the search operators from differential evolution algorithm with a certain probability with...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,443 Views
21 Pages

9 May 2025

Since the discovery of the Differential Evolution algorithm, new and improved versions have continuously emerged. In this paper, we review selected algorithms based on Differential Evolution that have been proposed in recent years. We examine the mec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,432 Views
20 Pages

The disposal of infectious waste remains one of the most severe medical, social, and environmental problems in almost every country. Choosing the right location and arranging the most suitable transport route is one of the main issues in managing haz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,212 Views
26 Pages

Algorithm for Propeller Optimization Based on Differential Evolution

  • Andry Sedelnikov,
  • Evgenii Kurkin,
  • Jose Gabriel Quijada-Pioquinto,
  • Oleg Lukyanov,
  • Dmitrii Nazarov,
  • Vladislava Chertykovtseva,
  • Ekaterina Kurkina and
  • Van Hung Hoang

This paper describes the development of a methodology for air propeller optimization using Bezier curves to describe blade geometry. The proposed approach allows for more flexibility in setting the propeller shape, for example, using a variable airfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,050 Views
26 Pages

Differential Evolution Using Enhanced Mutation Strategy Based on Random Neighbor Selection

  • Muhammad Hassan Baig,
  • Qamar Abbas,
  • Jamil Ahmad,
  • Khalid Mahmood,
  • Sultan Alfarhood,
  • Mejdl Safran and
  • Imran Ashraf

14 October 2023

Symmetry in a differential evolution (DE) transforms a solution without impacting the family of solutions. For symmetrical problems in differential equations, DE is a strong evolutionary algorithm that provides a powerful solution to resolve global o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,768 Views
28 Pages

An Improved Differential Evolution for Parameter Identification of Photovoltaic Models

  • Shufu Yuan,
  • Yuzhang Ji,
  • Yongxu Chen,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Weijun Zhang

19 September 2023

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are crucial for converting solar energy into electricity. Optimization, control, and simulation for PV systems are important for effectively harnessing solar energy. The exactitude of associated model parameters is an import...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,799 Views
17 Pages

10 March 2023

Adversarial example generation techniques for neural network models have exploded in recent years. In the adversarial attack scheme for image recognition models, it is challenging to achieve a high attack success rate with very few pixel modification...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,330 Views
22 Pages

A quick and effective way of segmenting images is the Otsu threshold method. However, the complexity of time grows exponentially as the number of thresolds rises. The aim of this study is to address the issues with the standard threshold image segmen...

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