Orthogonal Opposition Based Firefly Algorithm

Firefly Algorithm (FA) may suffer from the defect of low convergence accuracy depending on the complexity of the optimization problem. To overcome the drawback, a novel learning strategy named Orthogonal Opposition Based Learning (OOBL) is proposed and integrated into FA. In OOBL, first, the opposite is calculated by the centroid opposition, making full use of the population search experience and avoiding depending on the system of coordinates. Second, the orthogonal opposite candidate solutions are constructed by orthogonal experiment design, combining the useful information from the individual and its opposite. The proposed algorithm is tested on the standard benchmark suite and compared with some recently introduced FA variants. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of OOBL and show the outstanding convergence accuracy of the proposed algorithm on most of the test functions.