Starfish optimization algorithm (SFOA): a bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization with comparing 100 optimizers

Zhong, Changting, Li, Gang, Meng, Zeng, Li, Haijiang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6326-8133, Yildiz, Ali Riza and Mirjalili, Sevedali 2024. Starfish optimization algorithm (SFOA): a bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization with comparing 100 optimizers. Neural Computing and Applications 10.1007/s00521-024-10694-1 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

This work presents the starfish optimization algorithm (SFOA), a novel bio-inspired metaheuristic for solving optimization problems, which simulates behaviors of starfish, including exploration, preying, and regeneration. SFOA consists of two main phases of exploration and exploitation. The exploration phase mimics the explorative behavior of starfish by the hybrid search pattern of combining with the five-dimensional and unidimensional search patterns to increase the computational efficiency and ensure the search capacity. The exploitation phase simulates the preying and regeneration behaviors of starfish, with a two-directional search strategy and special movement, to ensure convergence in exploitation. This work validates SFOA’s performance on 65 benchmark functions from classical functions, CEC 2017 and CEC 2022 test suites, and compares with 100 different metaheuristic algorithms, including state-of-the-art optimizers, such as marine predators algorithm, water flow optimizer (WFO), LSHADE, LSHADE-cnEpSin, and LSHADE-SPACMA. Statistical results from one-on-one comparisons demonstrate that the proposed SFOA outperforms 95 compared algorithms in accuracy and 97 algorithms in efficiency, which is only worse than WFO both in accuracy and efficiency. The scalability analysis also demonstrates that SFOA has the capacity to solve high-dimensional benchmark functions. Furthermore, ten real-world engineering optimization problems illustrate the effectiveness of SFOA to achieve global solutions and exhibit stable results. In conclusion, SFOA is promising for solving various optimization problems. The source code of SFOA is publicly available at: https://ww2.mathworks.cn/matlabcentral/fileexchange/173735-starfish-optimization-algorithm-sfoa.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Springer Verlag (Germany)
ISSN:	0941-0643
Funders:	National Key Research and Development Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Dreams Foundation of Jianghuai Advance Technology Center Foundation, Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, Anhui Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar, Scientific Research Startup Foundation of Hainan University, Dalian University of Technology
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 October 2024
Date of Acceptance:	7 October 2024
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2025 12:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/173474

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