Uniform Big Bang-Chaotic Big Crunch optimization

This study proposes methods to improve the convergence of the novel optimization method, Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB-BC). Uniform population method has been used to generate uniformly distributed random points in the Big Bang phase. Chaos has been utilized to rapidly shrink those points to a single representative point via a center of mass in the Big Crunch phase. The proposed algorithm has been named as Uniform Big Bang-Chaotic Big Crunch (UBB-CBC). The performance of the UBB-CBC optimization algorithm demonstrates superiority over the BB-BC optimization for the benchmark functions. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.