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Phase transitions in swarm optimization algorithms

Adamatzky, Andrew

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Susan Stepney
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Sergey Verlan
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Abstract

Natural systems often exhibit chaotic behavior in their space-time evolution. Systems transiting between chaos and order manifest a potential to compute, as shown with cellular automata and artificial neural networks. We demonstrate that swarms optimisation algorithms also exhibit transitions from chaos, analogous to motion of gas molecules, when particles explore solution space disorderly, to order, when particles follow a leader, similar to molecules propagating along diffusion gradients in liquid solutions of reagents. We analyse these ‘phase-like’ transitions in swarm optimization algorithms using recurrence quantification analysis and Lempel-Ziv complexity estimation. We demonstrate that converging and non-converging iterations of the optimization algorithms are statistically different in a view of applied chaos, complexity and predictability estimating indicators.

Publication Date Jul 1, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 9, 2018
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 204-2016
Book Title Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
ISBN 9783319924359
Keywords unconventional computation, optimization
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/865069
Publisher URL https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319924342
Contract Date Jul 9, 2018