A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem

To date, there are much increasing trends on adopting parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms for solving general optimization problems. With parameter free algorithms, there are no parameter controls for tuning. As such, the adoption of parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms is often straightfor...

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Main Authors: Nurul Asyikin, Zainal, Kamal Z., Zamli, Fakhrud, Din
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Language:English
Published: Springer 2020
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author Nurul Asyikin, Zainal
Kamal Z., Zamli
Fakhrud, Din
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Kamal Z., Zamli
Fakhrud, Din
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description To date, there are much increasing trends on adopting parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms for solving general optimization problems. With parameter free algorithms, there are no parameter controls for tuning. As such, the adoption of parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms is often straightforward. On the negative note, exploration (i.e. roaming the search space thoroughly) and exploitation (i.e. manipulating the current known best neighbor) are pre-set. As the search spaces are problem dependent, any pre-set exploration and exploitation can lead to entrapment in local optima. In this paper, we investigate the use of Lévy flight to enhance the exploration of a parameter free meta-heuristic algorithm, called Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm (MSOS), via its population initialization. Our experimentations involving the software module clustering problems have been encouraging, as MSOS gives competitive results against existing selected parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms. For all the given module clustering problems, MSOS generates overall best mean results.
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spelling ump-336672022-04-11T03:04:34Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33667/ A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem Nurul Asyikin, Zainal Kamal Z., Zamli Fakhrud, Din QA Mathematics To date, there are much increasing trends on adopting parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms for solving general optimization problems. With parameter free algorithms, there are no parameter controls for tuning. As such, the adoption of parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms is often straightforward. On the negative note, exploration (i.e. roaming the search space thoroughly) and exploitation (i.e. manipulating the current known best neighbor) are pre-set. As the search spaces are problem dependent, any pre-set exploration and exploitation can lead to entrapment in local optima. In this paper, we investigate the use of Lévy flight to enhance the exploration of a parameter free meta-heuristic algorithm, called Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm (MSOS), via its population initialization. Our experimentations involving the software module clustering problems have been encouraging, as MSOS gives competitive results against existing selected parameter free meta-heuristic algorithms. For all the given module clustering problems, MSOS generates overall best mean results. Springer 2020 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33667/1/A%20Modified%20Symbiotic%20Organism%20Search.pdf Nurul Asyikin, Zainal and Kamal Z., Zamli and Fakhrud, Din (2020) A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem. In: InECCE2019: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electrical, Control & Computer Engineering , 29th July 2019 , Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. pp. 219-229., 632. ISBN 978-981-15-2317-5 (Published) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2317-5_19
spellingShingle QA Mathematics
Nurul Asyikin, Zainal
Kamal Z., Zamli
Fakhrud, Din
A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem
title A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem
title_full A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem
title_fullStr A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem
title_full_unstemmed A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem
title_short A Modified Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm with Lévy Flight for Software Module Clustering Problem
title_sort modified symbiotic organism search algorithm with lévy flight for software module clustering problem
topic QA Mathematics
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33667/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33667/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33667/1/A%20Modified%20Symbiotic%20Organism%20Search.pdf