Το work with title A global optimizer inspired from the survival strategies of flying foxes by Zervoudakis Konstantinos, Tsafarakis Stelios is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
K. Zervoudakis and S. Tsafarakis, “A global optimizer inspired from the survival strategies of flying foxes,” Eng. Comput., vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 1583–1616, Apr. 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00366-021-01554-w.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01554-w
The aim of the current paper is to introduce a global optimization algorithm, inspired from the survival strategies of flying foxes during a heatwave, called as Flying Foxes Optimization (FFO). The proposed method exploits a Fuzzy Logic (FL) technique to determine the parameters individually for each solution, thus resulting in a parameters-free optimization algorithm. To evaluate FFO, 56 benchmark functions, including the CEC2017 test function suite and three real-world engineering problems, are employed and its performance is compared to those of state-of-the-art metaheuristics, when it comes to global optimization. The comparison results reveal that the proposed FFO optimizer constitutes a powerful attractive alternative for global optimization.