A real-coded quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm for global numerical optimization

In this paper, a novel kind of algorithm, Real-coded quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (RQEA), is proposed based on evolutionary programming and quantum computation. In RQEA, several real numbers are directly encoded in a chromosome which is usually represented by quantum bits in quantum evolutionary programming. Quantum computation mechanics is employed to accelerate evolution process. The result of experiments shows that RQEA has a strong ability of global optimization and high convergence speed.