ELA: A new swarm intelligence algorithm

By analyzing the living behaviors of eels, this paper proposes a new eel swarm intelligence algorithm. This paper first describes the behavior of migratory eels, extracts three important behaviors-density adaption, neighboring learning and sex mutation, and establishes a model for the mathematical description of the three important behaviors. Based on rational organization of the three important behaviors, the eel algorithm is designed for continuous optimization problems. Finally, we test the performance of eel swarm intelligence algorithm via several selected benchmark problems. The results show that the algorithm, in terms of its excellent convergence speed and solving accuracy, is competitive to the compared algorithms.