An improved fruit fly optimization algorithm and its application to joint replenishment problems

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Highlights：

• Propose an improved FOA (IFOA) with swarm collaboration & random perturbation.

• IFOA outperforms FOA, DE and PSO in term of accuracy and reliability.

• IFOA can find better solutions of JRPs than the available best algorithm.

• IFOA is a powerful tool for various complex optimization problems.

摘要

•Propose an improved FOA (IFOA) with swarm collaboration & random perturbation.•IFOA outperforms FOA, DE and PSO in term of accuracy and reliability.•IFOA can find better solutions of JRPs than the available best algorithm.•IFOA is a powerful tool for various complex optimization problems.

论文关键词：Fruit fly optimization algorithm,Swarm collaboration,Random perturbation,Function optimization,Joint replenishment problem

论文评审过程：Available online 30 January 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.01.048