Training Multi-Layer Perceptron with Enhanced Brain Storm Optimization Metaheuristics

In the domain of artificial neural networks,the learning process represents one of the most challenging tasks.Since the classification accuracy highly depends on theweights and biases,it is crucial to find its optimal or suboptimal values for the problem at hand.However,to a very large search space,it is very difficult to find the proper values of connection weights and biases.Employing traditional optimization algorithms for this issue leads to slow convergence and it is prone to get stuck in the local optima.Most commonly,back-propagation is used formulti-layer-perceptron training and it can lead to vanishing gradient issue.As an alternative approach,stochastic optimization algorithms,such as nature-inspired metaheuristics are more reliable for complex optimization tax,such as finding the proper values of weights and biases for neural network training.In thiswork,we propose an enhanced brain storm optimization-based algorithm for training neural networks.In the simulations,ten binary classification benchmark datasets with different difficulty levels are used to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed enhanced brain storm optimization algorithm.The results show that the proposed approach is very promising in this domain and it achieved better results than other state-of-theart approaches on the majority of datasets in terms of classification accuracy and convergence speed,due to the capability of balancing the intensification and diversification and avoiding the local minima.The proposed approach obtained the best accuracy on eight out of ten observed dataset,outperforming all other algorithms by 1-2%on average.When mean accuracy is observed,the proposed algorithm dominated on nine out of ten datasets.

Brain Storm Optimization Based Clustering for Learning Behavior Analysis

Recently,online learning platforms have proven to help people gain knowledge more conveniently.Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020,online learning has become a mainstream mode,as many schools have adopted its format.The platforms are able to capture substantial data relating to the students’learning activities,which could be analyzed to determine relationships between learning behaviors and study habits.As such,an intelligent analysis method is needed to process efficiently this high volume of information.Clustering is an effect data mining method which discover data distribution and hidden characteristic from uncharacterized online learning data.This study proposes a clustering algorithm based on brain storm optimization(CBSO)to categorize students according to their learning behaviors and determine their characteristics.This enables teaching to be tailored to taken into account those results,thereby,improving the education quality over time.Specifically,we use the individual of CBSO to represent the distribution of students and find the optimal one by the operations of convergence and divergence.The experiments are performed on the 104 students’online learning data,and the results show that CBSO is feasible and efficient.

New Solution Generation Strategy to Improve Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm for Classification

As a new intelligent optimization method,brain storm optimization(BSO)algorithm has been widely concerned for its advantages in solving classical optimization problems.Recently,an evolutionary classification optimization model based on BSO algorithm has been proposed,which proves its effectiveness in solving the classification problem.However,BSO algorithm also has defects.For example,large-scale datasets make the structure of the model complex,which affects its classification performance.In addition,in the process of optimization,the information of the dominant solution cannot be well preserved in BSO,which leads to its limitations in classification performance.Moreover,its generation strategy is inefficient in solving a variety of complex practical problems.Therefore,we briefly introduce the optimization model structure by feature selection.Besides,this paper retains the brainstorming process of BSO algorithm,and embeds the new generation strategy into BSO algorithm.Through the three generation methods of global optimal,local optimal and nearest neighbor,we can better retain the information of the dominant solution and improve the search efficiency.To verify the performance of the proposed generation strategy in solving the classification problem,twelve datasets are used in experiment.Experimental results show that the new generation strategy can improve the performance of BSO algorithm in solving classification problems.

A Clustering Method Based on Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm

In the field of data mining and machine learning,clustering is a typical issue which has been widely studied by many researchers,and lots of effective algorithms have been proposed,including K-means,fuzzy c-means(FCM)and DBSCAN.However,the traditional clustering methods are easily trapped into local optimum.Thus,many evolutionary-based clustering methods have been investigated.Considering the effectiveness of brain storm optimization(BSO)in increasing the diversity while the diversity optimization is performed,in this paper,we propose a new clustering model based on BSO to use the global ability of BSO.In our experiment,we apply the novel binary model to solve the problem.During the period of processing data,BSO was mainly utilized for iteration.Also,in the process of K-means,we set the more appropriate parameters selected to match it greatly.Four datasets were used in our experiment.In our model,BSO was first introduced in solving the clustering problem.With the algorithm running on each dataset repeatedly,our experimental results have obtained good convergence and diversity.In addition,by comparing the results with other clustering models,the BSO clustering model also guarantees high accuracy.Therefore,from many aspects,the simulation results show that the model of this paper has good performance.

A Multi-Objective Scheduling and Routing Problem for Home Health Care Services via Brain Storm Optimization

At present,home health care(HHC)has been accepted as an effective method for handling the healthcare problems of the elderly.The HHC scheduling and routing problem(HHCSRP)attracts wide concentration from academia and industrial communities.This work proposes an HHCSRP considering several care centers,where a group of customers(i.e.,patients and the elderly)require being assigned to care centers.Then,various kinds of services are provided by caregivers for customers in different regions.By considering the skill matching,customers’appointment time,and caregivers’workload balancing,this article formulates an optimization model with multiple objectives to achieve minimal service cost and minimal delay cost.To handle it,we then introduce a brain storm optimization method with particular multi-objective search mechanisms(MOBSO)via combining with the features of the investigated HHCSRP.Moreover,we perform experiments to test the effectiveness of the designed method.Via comparing the MOBSO with two excellent optimizers,the results confirm that the developed method has significant superiority in addressing the considered HHCSRP.

RFID network planning based on improved brain storm optimization algorithm

In order to improve the service quality of radio frequency identification(RFID) systems, multiple objectives should be comprehensively considered. An improved brain storm optimization algorithm GABSO, which incorporated adaptive learning operator and golden sine operator into the original brain storm optimization(BSO) algorithm, was proposed to solve the problem of RFID network planning(RNP). GABSO algorithm introduces learning operator and golden sine operator to achieve a balance between exploration and development. Based on GABSO algorithm, an optimization model is established to optimize the position of the reader. The GABSO algorithm was tested on the RFID model and dataset, and was compared with other methods. The GABSO algorithm’s tag coverage was increased by 9.62% over the Cuckoo search(CS) algorithm, and 7.70% over BSO. The results show that the GABSO algorithm could be successfully applied to solve the problem of RNP.

OBSO Based Fractional PID for MPPT-Pitch Control of Wind Turbine Systems

In recent times,wind energy receives maximum attention and has become a significant green energy source globally.The wind turbine(WT)entered into several domains such as power electronics that are employed to assist the connection process of a wind energy system and grid.The turbulent characteristics of wind profile along with uncertainty in the design of WT make it highly challenging for prolific power extraction.The pitch control angle is employed to effectively operate the WT at the above nominal wind speed.Besides,the pitch controller needs to be intelligent for the extraction of sustainable secure energy and keep WTs in a safe operating region.To achieve this,proportional–integral–derivative(PID)controllers are widely used and the choice of optimal parameters in the PID controllers needs to be properly selected.With this motivation,this paper designs an oppositional brain storm optimization(OBSO)based fractional order PID(FOPID)design for sustainable and secure energy in WT systems.The proposed model aims to effectually extract the maximum power point(MPPT)in the low range of weather conditions and save the WT in high wind regions by the use of pitch control.The OBSO algorithm is derived from the integration of oppositional based learning(OBL)concept with the traditional BSO algorithm in order to improve the convergence rate,which is then applied to effectively choose the parameters involved in the FOPID controller.The performance of the presented model is validated on the pitch control of a 5 MW WT and the results are examined under different dimensions.The simulation outcomes ensured the promising characteristics of the proposed model over the other methods.

Comparative seismic design optimization of spatial steel dome structures through three recent metaheuristic algorithms

Steel dome structures,with their striking structural forms,take a place among the impressive and aesthetic load bearing systems featuring large internal spaces without internal columns.In this paper,the seismic design optimization of spatial steel dome structures is achieved through three recent metaheuristic algorithms that are water strider(WS),grey wolf(GW),and brain storm optimization(BSO).The structural elements of the domes are treated as design variables collected in member groups.The structural stress and stability limitations are enforced by ASD-AISC provisions.Also,the displacement restrictions are considered in design procedure.The metaheuristic algorithms are encoded in MATLAB interacting with SAP2000 for gathering structural reactions through open application programming interface(OAPI).The optimum spatial steel dome designs achieved by proposed WS,GW,and BSO algorithms are compared with respect to solution accuracy,convergence rates,and reliability,utilizing three real-size design examples for considering both the previously reported optimum design results obtained by classical metaheuristic algorithms and a gradient descent-based hyperband optimization(HBO)algorithm.

Comparative study of swarm intelligence-based saliency computation

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a new algorithm chaotic pigeon-inspired optimization(CPIO),which can effectively improve the computing efficiency of the basic Itti’s model for saliency-based detection.The CPIO algorithm and relevant applications are aimed at air surveillance for target detection.Design/methodology/approach–To compare the improvements of the performance on Itti’s model,three bio-inspired algorithms including particle swarm optimization(PSO),brain storm optimization(BSO)and CPIO are applied to optimize the weight coefficients of each feature map in the saliency computation.Findings–According to the experimental results in optimized Itti’s model,CPIO outperforms PSO in terms of computing efficiency and is superior to BSO in terms of searching ability.Therefore,CPIO provides the best overall properties among the three algorithms.Practical implications–The algorithm proposed in this paper can be extensively applied for fast,accurate and multi-target detections in aerial images.Originality/value–CPIO algorithm is originally proposed,which is very promising in solving complicated optimization problems.