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1Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey.
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The purpose of this paper is to test the performance of the recently proposed weighted superposition attraction-repulsion algorithms (WSA and WSAR) on unconstrained continuous optimization test problems and constrained optimization problems. WSAR is a successor of weighted superposition attraction algorithm (WSA). WSAR is established upon the superposition principle from physics and mimics attractive and repulsive movements of solution agents (vectors). Differently from the WSA, WSAR also considers repulsive movements with updated solution move equations. WSAR requires very few algorithm-specific parameters to be set and has good convergence and searching capability. Through extensive computational tests on many benchmark problems including CEC'2015 and CEC'2020 performance of the WSAR is compared against WSA and other metaheuristic algorithms. It is statistically shown that the WSAR algorithm is able to produce good and competitive results in comparison to its predecessor WSA and other metaheuristic algorithms.
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