Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem

Election algorithm (EA) is an optimization technique based on minimization and coalition operations to solve competition among neurons. The Election algorithm gives the best individual of the population by enhancing both minimization and coalition operations while local search gives the best loca...

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Main Authors: Hamza Abubakar, Saratha Sathasivam, Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
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author Hamza Abubakar,
Saratha Sathasivam,
Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi,
author_facet Hamza Abubakar,
Saratha Sathasivam,
Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi,
author_sort Hamza Abubakar,
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description Election algorithm (EA) is an optimization technique based on minimization and coalition operations to solve competition among neurons. The Election algorithm gives the best individual of the population by enhancing both minimization and coalition operations while local search gives the best local solutions by testing all neighbouring solutions. Negative campaign mechanism is one of the most important mechanism in EA for its impact on the diversification and overcoming premature convergence of the entire search space towards optimal searching. The challenging task lies in selecting the appropriate negative campaigning operator that leads to optimal searching in a reasonable amount of time. The decision then becomes more difficult and needs more trial and error to find the best negative campaigning operator. This paper investigates the effect of negative campaign operators in enhancing the performance of EA based on the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). New negative campaign operator has been proposed based on selecting the best voter to be replaced. Experiments were conducted on the TSP to evaluate the proposed methods. The proposed mechanism was compared with other negative campaign operators. The result reveals the significant enhancement of the EA performance based on the proposed method in TSP problem.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:160682021-01-24T15:59:01Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16068/ Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem Hamza Abubakar, Saratha Sathasivam, Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi, Election algorithm (EA) is an optimization technique based on minimization and coalition operations to solve competition among neurons. The Election algorithm gives the best individual of the population by enhancing both minimization and coalition operations while local search gives the best local solutions by testing all neighbouring solutions. Negative campaign mechanism is one of the most important mechanism in EA for its impact on the diversification and overcoming premature convergence of the entire search space towards optimal searching. The challenging task lies in selecting the appropriate negative campaigning operator that leads to optimal searching in a reasonable amount of time. The decision then becomes more difficult and needs more trial and error to find the best negative campaigning operator. This paper investigates the effect of negative campaign operators in enhancing the performance of EA based on the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). New negative campaign operator has been proposed based on selecting the best voter to be replaced. Experiments were conducted on the TSP to evaluate the proposed methods. The proposed mechanism was compared with other negative campaign operators. The result reveals the significant enhancement of the EA performance based on the proposed method in TSP problem. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16068/1/jqma-16-2-paper4.pdf Hamza Abubakar, and Saratha Sathasivam, and Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi, (2020) Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem. Journal of Quality Measurement and Analysis, 16 (2). pp. 171-181. ISSN 1823-5670 https://www.ukm.my/jqma/current/
spellingShingle Hamza Abubakar,
Saratha Sathasivam,
Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi,
Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
title Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
title_full Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
title_fullStr Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
title_full_unstemmed Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
title_short Effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
title_sort effect of negative campaign strategy of election algorithm in solving optimization problem
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16068/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16068/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16068/1/jqma-16-2-paper4.pdf