Barnacles Mating Optimizer: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Optimization

A new evolutionary algorithm called Barnacles Mating Optimizer (BMO) to solve optimization problems is presented in this paper. BMO is inspired from the behavior of barnacle' mating in nature. They are known as micro-organisms that existed since Jurassic times and classified as hermaphroditic micro-organisms. They have a unique feature which is they own long penises that can be said as the longest among microorganisms, relatively to size of their body. To show the effectiveness of proposed BMO in solving optimization problems, a set of 23 mathematical functions are used to test the characteristic of BMO in finding the optimal solutions especially in unimodal, multimodal and composite test functions. Comparisons with other evolutionary and swarm algorithms also will be presented.