Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Automatically Designing of Genetic Operators

At present there is a wide range of evolutionary algorithms available to researchers and practitioners. Despite the great diversity of these algorithms, virtually all of the algorithms share one feature: they have been manually designed. Can evolutionary algorithms be designed automatically by computer? In this paper, a novel evolutionary algorithm based on automatically designing of genetic operators is presented to address this problem. The resulting algorithm not only explores solutions in the problem space, but also automatically generates genetic operators in the operator space for each generation. In order to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, comprehensive experiments on 23 well-known benchmark optimization problems are conducted, and the results show that the proposed algorithm can outperform standard Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm.