The artificial immune system,an excellent prototype for developingMachine Learning,is inspired by the function of the powerful natural immune system.As one of the prevalent classifiers,the Dendritic Cell Algorithm(DCA...The artificial immune system,an excellent prototype for developingMachine Learning,is inspired by the function of the powerful natural immune system.As one of the prevalent classifiers,the Dendritic Cell Algorithm(DCA)has been widely used to solve binary problems in the real world.The classification of DCA depends on a data preprocessing procedure to generate input signals,where feature selection and signal categorization are themain work.However,the results of these studies also show that the signal generation of DCA is relatively weak,and all of them utilized a filter strategy to remove unimportant attributes.Ignoring filtered features and applying expertise may not produce an optimal classification result.To overcome these limitations,this study models feature selection and signal categorization into feature grouping problems.This study hybridizes Grouping Genetic Algorithm(GGA)with DCA to propose a novel DCA version,GGA-DCA,for accomplishing feature selection and signal categorization in a search process.The GGA-DCA aims to search for the optimal feature grouping scheme without expertise automatically.In this study,the data coding and operators of GGA are redefined for grouping tasks.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has significant advantages over the compared DCA expansion algorithms in terms of signal generation.展开更多
It is significant to combine multiple tasks into an optimal work package in decision-making of aircraft maintenance to reduce cost,so a cost rate model of combinatorial maintenance is an urgent need.However,the optima...It is significant to combine multiple tasks into an optimal work package in decision-making of aircraft maintenance to reduce cost,so a cost rate model of combinatorial maintenance is an urgent need.However,the optimal combination under various constraints not only involves numerical calculations but also is an NP-hard combinatorial problem.To solve the problem,an adaptive genetic algorithm based on cluster search,which is divided into two phases,is put forward.In the first phase,according to the density,all individuals can be homogeneously scattered over the whole solution space through crossover and mutation and better individuals are collected as candidate cluster centres.In the second phase,the search is confined to the neighbourhood of some selected possible solutions to accurately solve with cluster radius decreasing slowly,meanwhile all clusters continuously move to better regions until all the peaks in the question space is searched.This algorithm can efficiently solve the combination problem.Taking the optimization on decision-making of aircraft maintenance by the algorithm for an example,maintenance which combines multiple parts or tasks can significantly enhance economic benefit when the halt cost is rather high.展开更多
基金NSFC http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/for the support through Grants No.61877045Fundamental Research Project of Shenzhen Science and Technology Program for the support through Grants No.JCYJ2016042815-3956266.
文摘The artificial immune system,an excellent prototype for developingMachine Learning,is inspired by the function of the powerful natural immune system.As one of the prevalent classifiers,the Dendritic Cell Algorithm(DCA)has been widely used to solve binary problems in the real world.The classification of DCA depends on a data preprocessing procedure to generate input signals,where feature selection and signal categorization are themain work.However,the results of these studies also show that the signal generation of DCA is relatively weak,and all of them utilized a filter strategy to remove unimportant attributes.Ignoring filtered features and applying expertise may not produce an optimal classification result.To overcome these limitations,this study models feature selection and signal categorization into feature grouping problems.This study hybridizes Grouping Genetic Algorithm(GGA)with DCA to propose a novel DCA version,GGA-DCA,for accomplishing feature selection and signal categorization in a search process.The GGA-DCA aims to search for the optimal feature grouping scheme without expertise automatically.In this study,the data coding and operators of GGA are redefined for grouping tasks.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has significant advantages over the compared DCA expansion algorithms in terms of signal generation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6107901361079014+4 种基金61403198)the National Natural Science Funds and Civil Aviaiton Mutual Funds(U1533128U1233114)the Programs of Natural Science Foundation of China and China Civil Aviation Joint Fund(60939003)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province in China(BK2011737)
文摘It is significant to combine multiple tasks into an optimal work package in decision-making of aircraft maintenance to reduce cost,so a cost rate model of combinatorial maintenance is an urgent need.However,the optimal combination under various constraints not only involves numerical calculations but also is an NP-hard combinatorial problem.To solve the problem,an adaptive genetic algorithm based on cluster search,which is divided into two phases,is put forward.In the first phase,according to the density,all individuals can be homogeneously scattered over the whole solution space through crossover and mutation and better individuals are collected as candidate cluster centres.In the second phase,the search is confined to the neighbourhood of some selected possible solutions to accurately solve with cluster radius decreasing slowly,meanwhile all clusters continuously move to better regions until all the peaks in the question space is searched.This algorithm can efficiently solve the combination problem.Taking the optimization on decision-making of aircraft maintenance by the algorithm for an example,maintenance which combines multiple parts or tasks can significantly enhance economic benefit when the halt cost is rather high.