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In this research work a large set of the classical numerical functions were taken into account in order to understand both the search capability and the ability to escape from a local optimal of a clonal selection algorithm, called i-CSA. The algorithm was extensively compared against several variants of Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm, and with some typical swarm intelligence algorithms. The obtained results show as i-CSA is effective in terms of accuracy, and it is able to solve large-scale instances of well-known benchmarks. Experimental results also indicate that the algorithm is comparable, and often outperforms, the compared nature-inspired approaches. From the experimental results, it is possible to note that a longer maturation of a B cell, inside the population, assures the achievement of better solutions; the maturation period affects the diversity and the effectiveness of the immune search process on a specific problem instance. To assess the learning capability during the evolution of the algorithm three different relative entropies were used: Kullback-Leibler, Rényi generalized and Von Neumann divergences. The adopted entropic divergences show a strong correlation between optima discovering, and high relative entropy values.
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Cutello, V., Nicosia, G., Pavone, M., Stracquadanio, G. (2010). An Information-Theoretic Approach for Clonal Selection Algorithms . In: Hart, E., McEwan, C., Timmis, J., Hone, A. (eds) Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6209. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14547-6_12
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