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Kumlachew M Woldemariam1, Gary G Yen

  • 1Intelligent Systems and Control Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. kumlach@okstate.edu

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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Optimization
  • Bio-inspired Computing

Background:

  • Multimodal function optimization problems present significant challenges due to multiple local optima.
  • Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) offer a biologically inspired framework for optimization.
  • Existing AIS methods may struggle with thorough exploration of complex search spaces.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel vaccine-enhanced Artificial Immune System (AIS) for improved multimodal function optimization.
  • To leverage a biological vaccine concept to enhance search space exploration in AIS.
  • To address the challenge of finding both global and local optima in complex optimization landscapes.

Main Methods:

  • Dividing the decision space into equal subspaces.
  • Extracting random 'vaccine' antigens from each subspace.
  • Injecting weakened antigens into the AIS algorithm to guide antibody exploration.
  • Designing a vaccine-enhanced AIS (VEAIS) algorithm.

Main Results:

  • The vaccine-enhanced AIS demonstrates promising performance in multimodal function optimization.
  • The method effectively guides antibodies towards unexplored regions of the search space.
  • Improved exploration of both global and local optima was observed.

Conclusions:

  • The biologically inspired vaccine mechanism enhances the exploration capabilities of AIS.
  • The proposed vaccine-enhanced AIS is a viable approach for solving complex multimodal optimization problems.
  • This work contributes a novel strategy to bio-inspired optimization techniques.