A Novel Group-Based Firefly Algorithm with Adaptive Intensity Behaviour

Adam Robson, Kamlesh Mistry, Wai Lok Woo

2023

Abstract

This paper presents novel modifications to the Firefly Algorithm (FA) that manipulate the functionality of the intensity and attractiveness of fireflies through the incorporation of grouping behaviours into the movement of the fireflies. FA is one of the most well-known and actively researched swarm-based algorithms, gaining notoriety for the powerful search capability offered and overall computational simplicity. While the FA is an effective optimisation algorithm, it is unfortunately susceptible to the issue of premature convergence and oscillations within the swarm, which can lead to suboptimal performance. In the original FA formulation, at each iteration fireflies will instinctively move towards the most intensely bright firefly which is in closest proximity to them. The algorithm proposed in this paper manipulates the movement of the fireflies through modification of this intensity and attraction relationship, allowing the swarm to move in different ways, ultimately increasing the search diversity within the swarm. While group-based FAs have been proposed previously, the group-based FAs presented in this paper utilise a different approach to creating groups, implementing groupings based upon firefly performance at each iteration, resulting in continually varying groupings of fireflies, to further increase search diversity and maintain computational simplicity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Robson A., Mistry K. and Lok Woo W. (2023). A Novel Group-Based Firefly Algorithm with Adaptive Intensity Behaviour. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-623-1, pages 233-239. DOI: 10.5220/0011672200003393

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart23,
author={Adam Robson and Kamlesh Mistry and Wai Lok Woo},
title={A Novel Group-Based Firefly Algorithm with Adaptive Intensity Behaviour},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2023},
pages={233-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011672200003393},
isbn={978-989-758-623-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A Novel Group-Based Firefly Algorithm with Adaptive Intensity Behaviour
SN - 978-989-758-623-1
AU - Robson A.
AU - Mistry K.
AU - Lok Woo W.
PY - 2023
SP - 233
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0011672200003393